Words that other adults use that irritate you?

[Mangosmoothiesprinkles]

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?

Pussy ... just writing it makes me cringe badly.

Reflexive pronouns used incorrectly (almost always "yourself" when they mean "you")

I hate a dangling ‘or’

“Are you coming in today or.. ?”

The addition of ‘on’ to the verb ‘watch’.

“David Beckham in the stand there, watching on.”

The addition of ‘off’ to culinary verbs.

“Now I’m just going to fry off the onions.”

I’m surprised at the dislike of ‘Nan’. Real people have a nan and a grandad. If you’ve got a granny, you must be Red Riding Hood.

Oh, and ‘supper’. Fucking hate ‘supper’. It’s worse than ‘elevenses’ - and that’s dreadful.

Was just debating today whether to nag my mother about her over use of the phrase “nom nom”. Next she’ll be FB posting about Holibobs.

Agin my mum (I do actually love her): wishing everyone on her FB ‘Happy Birthday’ (she has the time I guess) but also because she always, ALWAYS types “hope there’ll be lots of cake”. It drives me crazy seeing those words. Completely irrational.

Hun/honey.

Hubs

And on here
When someone replies to a post with "this"

Reach out. Agh!
Cis.

@burritofan

I can’t stand “mama”. The only thing worse is “mama bear”. PLEASE “You got this, mama!”

As petty as this sounds (and it does), I once dropped someone I had recently befriended at a toddler group because he kept referring to me as mama bear and himself as a 'papa bear'

Eg 'I know how stressful it can be when they start nursery - take it from this papa bear, they do settle in. It'll be ok. Big hugs mama bear!'

I just couldn't handle it.

Papa bear had to go.

I actually hate bears now. I can't even go to the zoo anymore.

Using 'twas' instead of it was.
Boobing
Awesome
Hubby
Preggo
Mama bear
Using 'tis instead of 'it is'.
Fur babies

“He was out doing his hobby” rather than just saying he was cycling.

“Think….” when being non specific about something. “DH was out shopping, think supermarket or similar” Why not just say exactly what it is? It’s never going to be outing.

Serviette
Nan or Nanny
Settee
Blessed

I borrowed them a hammer

Overuse of the word 'lovely ' to describe people you barely know. As in the new neighbours are lovely or my DCs friends are all lovely.

The phrase 'you got this' àarghh!

@WalkingOnTheCracks your post has somehow made me think about wanking off vegetables.

Oh and when people refer to a baby as baby.

Let's get baby weighed, baby sleeping. Etc. I've probably not put that across very well but I know what I mean Haha.

"me and my DH gifted our old xyz to whoever"

Gifted is an especially talented child or young person.

Offloading some tat and reframing it as a Lady Bountiful act of tremendous largesse is pretentious as fuck.

You GAVE someone something
and if it was a gift or a present, you GAVE them a gift or GAVE them a present, a gift is an object, you didn't fucking "gift" them.

Christ I loathe it

'Obviously' when what is being said is not 'obvious' at all...

Kicked / kicks / kicking off

[quote DilemmaDelilah]@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...)[/quote]

@DilemmaDelilah
I think you might be my pedant twin 😀😀

Those examples drive me mad also !

"the rage"
"the feels"
"hubbie, hubster"
"kiddo"
"doggo"
"Baba"
"ickle"
"little man"

And trans. Don’t get me started!

So bloody many.

Hun, hunny; so twee and insincere
Granny/Grandma; hate it.
Play dates/date nights/daddy-daughter dates; weird, stupid and creepy
Sourcing; just fucking find it
Artisanal; home made shit you’re charging an extra £20 for
Hubby/hubster/wifey; if they divorce you, it’s your fault
Cheeky/naughty; Having a Nando’s isn’t cheeky or naughty, dickhead
Holibobs/ love you lots like jelly tots; grow the fuck up
Banter/bantz; unless you’re employed by Lad Bible, just stop it
Lickle, ickle; if you can’t speak properly, then just don’t talk
Apartment; it’s not an apartment, it’s an overpriced flat
We’re pregnant; no you’re fucking not.
Nom nom nom; you deserve to go hungry for that
He’s babysitting his child; no he’s fucking not
Baby mama, baby daddy; fuck right off
Doing something ‘with this one’; bleurrgh
Weary instead of wary
Heckles instead of hackles
Lounge

And when did people start calling their conservatory an orangery?!

Making memories hash tag
Endless fb posts saying no one has it harder or chain mail type posts.
And one my dh days...i won't be out of bed long.. when he fancies an early night. makes no sense to me.

hubby

When grown adults call their mum and dad mummy and daddy especially when said in a baby tone!

'Gotten' when used by a non North American. It seems to be a MN problem though, opposed to a RL one.

As petty as this sounds (and it does), I once dropped someone I had recently befriended at a toddler group because he kept referring to me as mama bear and himself as a 'papa bear'

That’s not petty at all. He deserved it. I’m assuming the mother of his child had left him because of it?