To cringe when people say...

[Dalmore30]

Food being described as ‘beautiful’, ‘gorgeous’ or ‘stunning’ makes me wants to vomit.

I have to bite my tongue when people say ‘fry off’ rather than just fry.

And the word ‘secondment’ makes my skin crawl!

Is anyone with me on these?

When people say ‘bare with’ instead of ‘bare with me’! Makes me cringe!

I love these threads, we have a lot of them, but it gives me free rein (or should that be reign) to say all the things I don't like:

Myself and my husband were impacted by the closure of the cinemas. However, we were still very excited for the film because we were gifted the DVD by a friend.

Contains all my pet hates!

Actually I've just thought of two others:

I'll talk to the deck of slides.

Surely you talk ABOUT the slides. And why are they a deck?

@EBearhug

"Dave can speak to the finance piece." No, he can speak to us about financials.

Ah you beat me to it

My mum says ‘absolutely’ really slowly when describing something like good food or a good film, aaabbbssssooooolutelllyyyyy brilliant. Makes me want to yell into a bucket.

Also, hospikal and likkle, instead of hospital and little have the same effect.

panini’s and pizza’s. No, just no! Panino and pizza (singular) or panini and pizze (plural)

I disagree with that one because they are now English words so we can use the English plural.

I find things like stadia pretentious. And making data plural "the data are". I change it to the information is.

Some of these words are necessary so people understand exactly what you mean. If you say 'fry' it covers more than one cooking method. 'Pan fry' means a very tiny amount of oil, 'deep fry' a lot. It isn't about the pan itself.
Secondment is very specific, I can't think of an interchangeable one.
At least you didn't say 'it's cringe', which my preteen has taken up.
Some words are designed to annoy, like 'amazeballs' but others are just part of the language!

Is "fry off" a new show like Bake Off but you have to fry things?

@Bacardi101

When people say ‘bare with’ instead of ‘bare with me’! Makes me cringe!

The word is bear not bare.

I have several. These two are top of the list. People who say "cheeky" about anything that isn't. As in "I had a cheeky little glass of wine". Makes me really cringe. But my all time vomit inducer is "nom nom nom" to indicate finding something delicious. Moronic beyond belief.

Piping hot!
.com anything. You are not tired.com.
Wine o'clock!
A cheeky anything! Just have a beer not a cheeky beer.

Don't get me started on made up words by slamming two words together. Guesstimate 😬🙄

Oh 'a cheeky...' is so irritating. No-one is amused, or undermined, by your decision to have a beer. Just make a decision, then enjoy your drink, like any other grown-up. 'A cheeky...' is such a man-child phrase.

In Scotland, actual orange juice is always referred to as “fresh orange”.

Yes, this is true. I remember having to intervene and translate for some tourists once, who were horrified that their ‘fresh’ orange was actually longlife-concentrate orange juice. They were aghast. (They were from London.)

I had to explain that the waitress hadn’t claimed that the orange juice was ‘freshly squeezed.’ Just that it wasn’t squash.

My Mum hated that use of “juice” and practically beat it out of us as kids. It’s equivalent to “pop” in other parts of the U.K.

Was she in Scotland at the time? If not, she’d have got a weird look from the guy behind the bar!

No, @CheetasOnFajitas, she was in deepest darkest Dorset 😂😂😂

"Pupper"
"Doggo"
"Totes amazeballs"
"That moment when..."
"So this just happened...'
"Have kids they said, it will be fun they said"
"Prinny"
"Twinnies"
"Good eats"
"Makes and bakes"
And when people say they will "mop up" gravy or something with bread.
When people describe everything as "homemade".

The word meal..
ooo I went out for a lovely meal.
I had a lovely meal at the pub

Oh just fuckoff!!!

Reminds me of meal worms.

MissCrowley me too! "Enjoy your meaaallll"

FUCK RIGHT OFF!

A parent calling themselves and their kids/ partners 'Team xx(insert family surname)'

I remember a friend at university sending a letter to her family back home and she'd addressed it "X Tribe" (their name began with Tr- so it alliterated as well!). I remember being appalled at the naffness (though later I realised I was also jealous as my family were a dysfunctional disaster)

I’ve just chuckled and cringed at the same time when someone on a Facebook group I’m a member of has posted that he’s “lost my lively hood”. I am having visions of a hooded anorak that sings and dances getting lost somewhere.

Ooooh... I loathe “Twinnies”, too. Mine are fourteen - one is either teary and flouncy or bitchy and unbearable, the other is pimply and smelly and sounds like a bawling calf. I barely cope when people call them “The Twins”, preferring them to be separate entities, but “Twinnies” is simply nauseating.

I have a similar response when food is described as - lush. It makes me want to vomit. Lush means growing luxuriantly - how can a bowl of rice pudding do that????

Secondment though.... YABU

When I was in school we had cake sales. Now they have bake sales.

This is probably a UK based food ordering irk but;

'Can I get...'

Instead of

'Can I have...'

A 'black guy' or a 'gay guy' when the speaker would call their white/straight counterpart a 'man' rather than a 'guy'.

@Katgolde

A 'black guy' or a 'gay guy' when the speaker would call their white/straight counterpart a 'man' rather than a 'guy'.

This as well!