Words that other adults use that irritate you?

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Some examples that seem to irritate me (yes I know it’s totally irrational!).

First is someone calling the tumble dryer ‘the tumblee’ (written phonetically to explain how they pronounce it). Second is ‘homee’ rather than home. I know there is no reason for these to give me the rage but they do.

AIBU to feel irrationally annoyed? What words that other adults use give you the rage?

Referring to adult children as their 'wee princess' or 'wee tiger cub'
One of the Mums my DS was at school with does this all the time (they are now mid - late twenties). Makes me want to scream

@MrsFezziwig @Pumpkin5piced dropping "the" or "into" in the examples you've given is part of the Yorkshire dialect. The word is there, you just can't hear it - it's basically a glottal stop that is so vestigial that it's practically disappeared. It's been like that for ages- you can hear the same pattern when you listen to recordings of people from the area from many years ago. Dialects are beautiful, it would be awful if we all sounded the same.

The "Needs walked" and "Needs gone" construction is more modern. It's pretty ugly to me as well but if I learned more about it maybe I would come to like it better. In my mind I call it "Facebook dialect" because it shows up when someone posts some piss-stained old furniture. "Settee and chair, £50, must collect today, needs gone!!! No time wasters!"- that sort of thing.

Oh almost forgot
Yah/yar

I’ll make no friends for this but I think the following make people sound common and just a bit thick 😬:

Nan, cuppa, brew, l’il, hun, sweets (as a term of address), poorly, tea (for dinner), doggy, my little Princess, prinny, little man, mummy’s little , bubba, bub, holibobs, girly, fab, journey, lickle, hubby, hubster, famalam, “love my little family”, doggo, kiddies, ‘super’ excited (about something mundane such as a MLM product ‘launch’), haul, colab., “this is everything”, boobing, queen/kween, my king (below photo of fat, sweating, sunburnt man in marble foyer of Dubai hotel), ‘little mate’ (referring to child)….

I could go on. And on.

#makingmemories

Oh and any barely literate outpouring completed with a capitalised FACT or worse, RANT OVER.

Unnecessarily use of like in a sentence. It's, like, so, like, annoying.

Most uses of literally in a sentence. It's literally not needed.

Missing out of some words in a sentence. "Shall we go shops?" You mean, shall we go to the shops, or shall we go shopping.

Adding "goals" hashtags to most things, such as #lifegoals, #housegoals, #boyfriendgoals, just say you like something if you like it, it doesn't need to be turned into a goal.

Oh, and saying "hashtag" when speaking out loud. It's written for social media ffs. Hashtag annoying!

So many already mentioned:
-Famalam
-Holibob
-Hubby
-Lush
-Bubba
-Girlie (anything - like 'girlie night out' eugh)
-FB posts talking about someone as 'this one'
-Boob and all variants relating to feeding including boobing, on the boob etc instead of breast/breastfeeding/feeding/milk (and that isn't hate for breastfeeding as I've breastfed two. Breasted. Not boobed them (gag).
-Any babyish pronunciation of words eg cuggle instead of cuddle.
-People typing actions into posts / texts eg 'hugs' or 'giving you such a big hug now'. You're not though. Just use words.

• The phrase 'get your ducks in a row'
• plurals of words that are already plural to sound cute eg milks (bubba wants some milks?)

People are so annoying. For full transparency - I'm also very annoying

Tummy
We are pregnant
Nom nom
Yummy
Entitled
Routine

Awesome!
Little man
The boy
Me thinks
10 get ups (how old are we now?)
Beaut

@SilverOtter

When people end their sentence with "no?". I cannot explain why, but I really REALLY hate it.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one - WHY is it so infuriating (but it is)?

‘ and just like that, so and so is 8’ on birthday posts, well no it wasn’t just like that, it’s been 8 years bugs me I don’t know why!

This year every body seemed to instead of wishing their kids a great first day, wrote ‘ go smash year 3’ etc, which was really annoying

‘Boy did good’ when he brought the gifts she clearly sent him the links for

Nom nom nom, me thinks, lush

Maybe I just shouldn’t be around humans

It's all good stuff.

‘Pretty please’ makes me cringe.

Also tummy - how old are you FFS?

Holibobs

Rellies (for relatives)

Ta
Asymtotic
Needs walked
And incorect tenses so buyed it

@VexedofVirginiaWater @SilverOtter "no?" at the end of a sentence is annoying because the speaker or writer is pressuring you to either agree with them or explain why. Even if it's only rhetorical, it still comes across as quite pushy and entitled. Pretty clear, no? (sorry!)

@TheLongDrop thank goodness I'm not the only one! Invite is a VERB! Invitation is a NOUN! I also get really annoyed over the misuse of apostrophes.... but that's another story. Also the use of too instead of to, loose instead of lose, brought instead of bought, but that risks putting me into pedants' corner (note the correct use of the apostrophe there...)

And ‘baby steps’.

'You know...'
'You know what I mean...'
inserted randomly into professional speak....

Hits my NERVES!

A pop of colour (something colourful)
Living my best life (doing something enjoyable today)
The optics are bad (that doesn't look good to an outsider)

Supper - makes me think of pale men with wet, skinny lips nibbling cheese and crackers. I don't know why.

But I will die defending my right to say lounge (for the room where I lounge around).

Live laugh love
Girlies
Hun
Babe
Little man
Lush
Totes (as in "totes amazing")
Bae

🤦🏼‍♀️

I hate the use of 'to which ' all the time when recounting stories/conversations, no idea where it came from.

In terms of
Can I get
Right?
Referring to group of women as ladies