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?

Same with 'aghast'.

aGHAAAAst!

Oh and chill.
"How's your new baby?"
"He's amazing, he's super chill"

@burritofan

Nan. Dessert. Toilet. Lounge. Settee. Sick instead of poorly. People pronouncing the “l” in almond. DP’s pronunciation of turmeric. (“Tyume-arick.” NO.)

How do you pronounce Almond with using the L though? 🤔

@burritofan

Nan. Dessert. Toilet. Lounge. Settee. Sick instead of poorly. People pronouncing the “l” in almond. DP’s pronunciation of turmeric. (“Tyume-arick.” NO.)

Can't stand 'poorly' 😂

I don't have time to get upset about people's words 🤣

Boobing - as in boobing the baby to sleep 😱

Holibobs

Telly - I know but it's irrational

Nanny for a grandmother. From my granny, who said that Nanny was a job not a relation.

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.

@Wroxie Luckily, having lived my entire life in Yorkshire I really don’t need you to explain the Yorkshire dialect to me, I hear it every day. It doesn’t sound the way you describe it (not where I live anyway) and it is often written on here by people who certainly aren’t from Yorkshire. But thanks for the linguistics lesson - presumably you’re from Yorkshire too?

@Flufferty

Mash potato. It’s mashed potato. MASHED

Pack lunch. It’s packed lunch. PACKED

Oh yes, this drives me up the wall was well and everyone seems to do this now.

How do you pronounce Almond with using the L though?

I've heard people pronounce it "ahmond" but I don't think that's correct.

@icedcoffees

It bothers me when people shorten words for no reason, so things like:

Cherry toms
Hot choc
New pots

ARGH!

Oh God, this annoys the hell out of me. I follow a few slimming world accounts on instagram and they say:

Toms (tomatoes)
Bloobs (blueberries)
Strawbs (strawberries).

Irritates the shit out of me!!!

I had a mum actually call her 4 year olds bottom as her ‘pussy’. I was really shocked and stunned , especially as she is a posh tosser. Such a gross word at the best of times.

@rainbowmash

Agree with a few people here re: "supper". Makes me think of lukewarm tea and cold greasy fish.

No clue why people still use it despite it being almost universally hated and so very clearly nasty as a word.

There's a growing trend where I live for old-timey independent restaurants that get called "supper clubs" and I don't think I've ever lost my appetite so quickly...

You may not like it but I don't think you can go as far as saying "it's universally hated and clearly nasty as a word". I have no problem with it and have never heard anyone objecting to it irl. It's not nasty. It's a bit like the word kipper and they are very tasty.

@Lovealovestory

I don't have time to get upset about people's words 🤣

But you have time to comment on it on MN...?

My bad
Math

People using 'a' instead of 'an', so 'a apple' - where has this come from?!

When people have different names for nan and grandad. I had just nan's and grandad's, my parent's are nan and grandad to my kid's. My in laws had to call themselves something different and I cringe so hard and just avoid referring to them to our children so I don't have to say their names "gammy and grampy". Gammy I just think of a gammy infected leg, Grampy = grumpy. Ridiculous names!! They made such a big deal out of chosing the names too 🤣, I had to stop myself from laughing at the big reveal!!

@Smeds

Whatnot What-dya- ma-call-it Thingy

Particularly when they're all used together and the person gets annoyed when you have no idea what they're talking about.

I do this all the time because I have a real issue (sorry PP) with word recall. It's extremely frustrating and makes me sound like I'm an idiot (which I'm not) so please have a but if patience with that one.

Holibobs. It makes me flinch.

Ickle
Lickle
Hospikal
Googie eggs

FUCK OFFFF!!

Mate

Also I've got friends with son's and they use the phrase 'the boy'

Hun
Hubby
Hollibobs

One of the directors of my company describes a large document as "a meaty doc". Honestly makes me feel sick.

Telly box.

(Why not just say telly??! )

Holibobs

Off of

Drives me insane.