Favourite and worst words and phrases.

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Just for fun

What is you favourite/least favourite words and phrase that makes you cringe. Mine are:

Favourite, Epiglottis

Worst, Smegma

Most cringe phrase “Me thinks”

Favourite - mellifluous
Worst - phlegm

Cringe phrase - hope that helps (PA version)

Favourite phrase - fuck all and plenty of it.

Cringe - x more sleeps until ...

mellifluous is a great word

Worst: ... need to have a conversation....
Moving forward
Apparently.....
With all due respect

Mellifluous is rick steins favourite word. Just a fun fact.

My favourite word is serendipitous

My least favourite is bell end

My favourite phrase is comparison is the thief of joy

My least favourite phrase is "the proof is in the pudding" (because it's NOT! The proof of the pudding is in the eating!)

Best: crepuscular, vestibule.

I've always been driven irrationally mad by the phrase "Cool Beans" as a sign-off. There's something both passive aggressive and very conformist about it. I also hate the neo ironic version of the word "super".

Amazing @kittenkipping

Haha I also dislike “cool beans” very much! @thepeopleversuswork

Pusillanimous, a word I learned from Look Back In Anger, I would have loved to have heard Richard Burton say to his girlfriend Lady Pusillanimous.

Mumsnet favourites: get your ducks in a row
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....

Worst: 'you poor thing'
hate it. None of us are things nor poor - it isn't usually used in a monetary sense, but I wouldn't like to be called poor in any sense.
Can't think of an alternative tho.

Favourite- recalcitrant, salubrious, arbitrary

Worst - hollibobs

Worst phrase: hot drink. I don't know why but I hate hate the word drink. I think it's the rise and fall and the n-k but it just sounds gross. Adding hot makes it more annoying.

Best: sibilance, syllabub, all the s and b/v sounds.