'Unrefined' words / phrases

[brideyb]

I'm a little... rough around the edges

But I want to be seen as more sophisticated and grown up at work (prof services) and socially. I catch myself saying things that my colleagues never do and want to train myself out of it in order to progress and be seen as a shit together adult. My vocab seems to be stuck in my teenage years, I can't think of the words right now but I know I do it - things like ' cool' and ending a call with see yaaaa laterrrr'

Middleclass Mumsnet and senior professional woman - what phrases do I need to cut out?

Even if ‘my bad’ does come from black street slang, I don’t think it would be racist to say avoid it.

@thinkfast

Instead of saying "cool" say yes, or fine, or that's fine.

Don't end a professional call with "see ya later". Bye or goodbye or speak to you tomorrow, would be more appropriate.

'Fine' is one of the most useful words in the Englaish language, the tone in which it's delvivered says such a lot!

@Oneearringlost

A little pedantic, but sentences ending with a proposition are something i'm not keen on. Completely agree

Surely the original quote was intending to mirror Churchill on the subject of prepositions at the end of a sentence, A standard of English up with which I will not put! It's useful to know the difference between who and whom, it's to do with the subject and object of a sentence.

@EsoNoSeHace

WRT no prepositions at the end of a sentence: this is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

Thank you WSC!

@JudgeJ Would have credited him, but he gets credited with everything and it may be apocryphal.

@ILoveShula

Yes - that should be segue. How embarrassing! Some journalist confessed that she was at something quite highbrow and mispronounced it as she'd only ever seen it written and had never heard it pronounced. Neither had I at the time.

@Rangoon, I was thinking Seague might be a surname or something.

Like Teague, which I think is pronounced Tayg, correct me if I'm wrong.

I get words wrong sometimes, I'm not that bothered but feel a bit silly at the time. It annoys me if people repeatedly poke fun at me over how I say a bog standard word that only has one way of saying it. Won't say the word, but it's something as ordinary as 'people'.

Talking of which, why is Ibiza now referred to on the news as Eye-beetha?

Ibiza has always been Eye-beetha hasn't it?

I only ever heard the Vengaboys call it anything else (and I don't trust them ONE BIT on pronunciation).

I know the struggle. I have a south London accent and I've been told that when I speak "properly" I sound like I'm being sarcastic. So "thanks very much" and "have a good day" can sound a bit patronising apparently. I find that I ramble easily so cutting conversations down a bit helps with that - just say bye and then leave so there's no "bye bye, okay, anyways, see ya later" IYSWIM.

@musicalfrog, Eebeetha.
Spanish is phonetic.