Words I hate...I AIBU I know but I want to tell you mine and hear yours.

[FortunesFave]

Smellies.

What an ugly word for something as nice as beauty or bath products.

Booze.

So SLOPPY sounding. BOOZE...no...no...no.

'End of.' shudder

Ignorance of the correct past tense:
I done it, I sung it, he has went away. Aaaargh! What is so difficult about I did it, I sang it, he has gone away?

I work with books and I see this a lot. Actual professional (I use the term advisedly) editorial people who get paid to do this stuff cannot use the past tense properly.

@FlappyFish

I’m the same with meal.

“Shall we meet up for a meal?”

I’ve hated it for years and just always reply, “dinner sounds great. When?”

Tbf meal covers the whole country and beyond. If someone said they wanted to meet me for dinner, I'd think they meant midday.

"To be fair" when used in the the wrong context, ie used when stating a fact, " I want to go out, to be fair".
It's fine when used in the context " He had a point, to be fair"

Tbf meal covers the whole country and beyond. If someone said they wanted to meet me for dinner, I'd think they meant midday

I think I would say meal unless I meant a particular time of day. For me lunch is around noon/1pm and dinner is an evening meal.

Except for Christmas dinner which is any time of day after mid-day (same for Sunday roast dinner).

Self-isolate. Why isn't it isolate/isolated.
Needs gone/needs fixed etc. Loss of verb to be.

There's more...

Penetration / penetrate - horrible word.

I also hate the word ‘assume’ but it might be because of the way DH stretches it out and makes it sound like ‘asssuuummm’ that gives me the total rage!

Invite used as a noun. ‘I sent you an invite’. No. No no no. ‘Invite’ is a verb. You invite me by sending me an invitation.

Self-isolate means you isolate yourself; remember the coachload of people returning from Wuhan who were isolated in an ex-hospital? They were not self isolating.

So I don’t mind that.

I also cringe at ‘gifting’

Frugal - ever since step mum moved in & said to late DF we weren’t frugal enough with our weekly shop. Meant more for her to inherit I suppose.

Lush and yummy

Hate

Also, when people say unconscious when they subconscious.

Throbbing

Hubby

“At the end of the day”

With respect

Mine is people who use "quite" or "very" before unique. It's creeping into use on tv more and more.

"His shirt is very unique" or "His expeience was quite unique"

Something is either unique or it's not. No very, quite, a little, or anything like that.

Seen it
Them ones
Moving forward

Gifted, as in 'I've been gifted a coffee make' or whatever!
So you've been GIVEN a coffee maker then.
No need for an additional, pretentious word when one already exists 😡

I can’t believe how many people also hate ‘meal’! I honestly thought it was just me.

Others include:

Choccy
Supper
Smellies (used to refer to a Boots gift set)

Take out, it's a take away

Eatery. Literally. Marketise. Differentiation. Definately (sic)

Prep.

What's the difference between supper and dinner?

I'm working class...it was dinner and tea. I note that the properly posh people I know say supper...but it's dinner if they're going out or more formal...is that it?