You can just say 'my husband' or 'my daughter', you know, instead of bloody 'DH' or 'DD'. WE WILL STILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND YOU!

[MehWithBellsOn]

How refreshing would it be, just for once, to see someone here state 'my husband' instead of their 'DH'?!

It's such a sappy wet-lettuce thing to say anyway, plus half the bloody time there are threads about how someone's 'darling' husband has been found to be texting some other woman/cam girl/sex worker, etc

It's as though people here think nobody will be able to understand them unless they preface the person they're talking about with 'darling'. WHY?!

WHEN WILL WE STOP THE TWATTERY?

@MasterBeth

I agree with the OP. Just write the word. It’s not hard. Husband.

Not hard to write original poster either?

I love ddog so much that I now call my ddog Dee Dog.
However I have much the same reaction as OP whenever the much overused word 'vile' appears.

I am not a fan, so YANBU 🤣

I’m fine with acronyms - as above, YANBU for a start 😉

I just don’t like how twee the “D” is.
MIL, XH, STBXH - those are fine.
I guess the “D” prefix came about because a single letter isn’t as easy to read as an at least two letter acronym?

I don’t really buy that for everyone it’s shorthand when I typing with one hand.

Huge lengthy posts, but with “DH” in... nah.
I think it falls into:

• people who think it’s the convention here who just follow it (maybe 80%) - OK
• people who are one handed and looking for shorthand (10%) - OK
• people who are twee (10%) - these people should be half drowned in glitter, wrapped in a ticker, and sent to NM

Christ. vile I’d forgotten that.

You can almost see the poster’s lip curl and the sneery coupon as you read it.

Odfod

Does anyone really care?

Preach! It’s so annoying

DH = 2 letters
My husband = 9 letters

YABU - the abbreviation is much quicker and easier.

H =1 letter

Sometimes I use the term HUBBY and then mn users respond with they're going to throw up

It's just a convention. A FB group I use has D/S followed by age, so 'D15'. Whenever I post there I have to go back and change all my DD1s to D15's.... Just the way it is.

I hate this too and always just say ‘my husband’ but the one that winds me up even more is ‘DC’ being used instead of ‘children’ in general, e.g. ‘do you have any DC with STBXH?’ or ‘We are having a birthday party for DC2 and ten DC are invited’.

It also took me a long time to find out what ‘PFB’ actually stands for and I still can’t read it in my head as anything other than ‘precious fucking baby’

MN Acronyms

But its part of group bonding..it has sociological significance and is not going to go away. It has grown as a way to unify us through conversation, although, most of the time we are not aware of it.

Just like 'Naice Ham and Birdyfriend' are signifiers of long time commitment to the group - in a group which is anonymous and transitory.

Very weird thing to be angry about OP. It’s part of mumsnet, it’s even included in the shortcut guide for new users.

It’s part of the community you choose to be in. You wouldn’t join Slimming World and start ranting about people referring to Syns. Or perhaps you would!

😂 have always though this OP, you are not alone! (Especially as you say when talking about the DH that you clearly hate!) Ginevere I was part of Slimming World at one point and felt EXACTLY the same about syns haha! Stupid word to use in a group promoting healthy weight loss, to imply that some foods are “bad” in the way that an anorexic thinks!

Isn’t it just used as it’s quicker to type, a bit like text speak? Certainly not something I could get annoyed about anyway 😂

@Mygardenisnotperfect lol yes that’s exactly why I used it as an example! Hated the word Syns, refused to say it, but I didn’t argue as I knew it was part of the rules!

I didn’t last long in slimming world!

No shit sherlock

I thought it a little odd to start with. Now used to it.

HTH

Sparklingbrook

It's like RTFT is 'read the fucking thread' to me but apparently the 'F' really means 'Full'

After all these years I genuinely didn't know that

@Sparklingbrook

It's like RTFT is 'read the fucking thread' to me but apparently the 'F' really means 'Full'

Oh no it doesn't !!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

I'm on a PC. No auto-complete

Which is why I specified people posting on a phone. Having said that, I am a touch typist. It takes me about the same amount of time to type husband as it would DH, because of reaching for the shift key.

[Yes, I'm that petty.]

I'm not.

So it works for me.

@HarkAVagrant

I found it annoying when I came here 14 years ago. Now I think of various family members by their abbreviations (SIL etc). There’s a burger place in our town called LTB, I see it as Leave The Bastard every time. In other words, it’s established, it’s fine, you get used to it.

I have to stop myself using them elsewhere, where they're not the norm.