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?

I have a few, and some of them are mumsnetty!

crack on - fuckin hell this irritates me into turning puce. Just why oh why do people always have to join in a group wank?

you do you - Just please go, take a hike and drop off the face of the earth, thanks.

artisanal - and im looking at you, 'Toast', with your faux giving-a-shit ethics whilst scoring turds-to-zero on the consumer ethics scale.

Bro - really bothers me, it's one of the reasons I can't do the long haul with Reddit.

@simitra

Boomer - for people born in the 1940s

Class - pronounced "clarse" as though there were an R in it.

Talk to me - when we are already talking

I grew up in the SE, class rhymes with arse here… or do people actually say it rhyming with mass?

So

Not an offence in the right context: ‘I’m so happy’, that’s fine, but ‘so, I went to the pub last night’ is not. Radio 4 has had a nasty dose of the Sos and it’s infected large parts of the media and MN.

Draw instead of drawers. As in what would you put in this draw......drives me fecking demented...

Making love

I don’t know why but I hate this description of having sex

I grew up in the SE, class rhymes with arse here… or do people actually say it rhyming with mass?

faux ignorance is tedious. Most adults are aware that there is a different pronunciation between north and south with words such as 'class'.
It isn't a superiority debate.

Obligated - all over the place now, instead of the perfectly good ‘obliged’.

I hate hearing contemporary slang in period-piece films and TV shows. I was watching a new series that was set in 1986, and one character said to another: "I trust this won't impact our relationship going forward." Arghhh! People did not speak like that in the '80s. Trust me, I was there. They would have said "I hope this won't affect our relationship." That's all.

Poorly. It always sounds as though the speaker is turning her mouth down sadly at the corners.

@DilemmaDelilah

I HATE invite instead of invitation. It's NOT an invite. It has never been an invite. It will never be an invite. The word is INVITATION!!!!!

Amen to that!

“The Electric” as in “ I need to pay the electric bill or “ the electric is getting expensive”. It’s ElectRICITY, you are being charged for ElecTRICITY. The bill itself does not have a current running through it.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Obligated - all over the place now, instead of the perfectly good ‘obliged’.

Also agree.

@Mantlemoose

Brufen instead of ibuprofen. Even heard a nurse saying it.

That’s a brand name I think?

zimseller.co.uk/products/brufen-400-extra-strength-tablets-10s @Mantlemoose

No different to saying Nurofen instead of Ibuprofen.

Hun
“I’m gonna Go ahead and”
Then instead of than

@Pumpkin5piced

Not a word but there seems to be a nee trend for dropping words from a sentence, it might be regional as ive never heard anyone in real life do it but it drives me insane.. “The dog needs walked” or “ the dinner needs cooked”. Not the best examples, but from what I’ve noticed it’s generally sentences with the words ‘to be’ missing

This is indeed regional. Quite a big region in fact- the whole of Scotland. It’s how we’ve always talked.

@DeepaBeesKit

People saying belly (bellyache, belly button) instead of tummy

Eurgh, yes! I have to say the word sometimes at work in the context of the belly of an aircraft, which is technically correct and obviously not its “tummy” but I really hate the sound of the word!

Everything overly corporate..
Deliverables
Actions as in "can we mark these down as actions"
Mark when not a name or homework

Brit in USA so I could go on endlessly

Oi my mum is a Nanna she is lovely leave her alone. I call a tea brew too 😉

My friend's daughter is adopted we both hate "tummy mummy" used by the social worker. She uses first mum.

Brufen is a thing on its own

Haven't read the whole thread so may have been mentioned but
"My truth".
Either it's the truth or it's not! Just because you claim it's your truth doesn't mean it's true! It doesn't even make sense. It's your opinion, how you perceive something or your version of an event but it is not truth unless it is, the truth.

The phrase 'rant over.'

‘Legend!’

….as in…

“Damn. I left my mask in the car.”

“Here, I’ve got a spare.”

“Legend!”

Also, I’m very irritated by all the DC, DD, SO, LTB conventions here on, er, MN.

AIBU?

@groovergirl

I hate hearing contemporary slang in period-piece films and TV shows. I was watching a new series that was set in 1986, and one character said to another: "I trust this won't impact our relationship going forward." Arghhh! People did not speak like that in the '80s. Trust me, I was there. They would have said "I hope this won't affect our relationship." That's all.

You can’t beat ‘Father Brown’ if your thing is contrived multiple-homicide in a picturesque fantasy of thatched post-war Little England. But the show generates added excitement if you run a book on how soon the first anachronistic usage will appear.

“Gosh, I see what you mean, Father. We’re going to have to think outside the box.”

Every single episode has one. I think the script editors are doing it on purpose to wind up people like me.