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?

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Belly and 'So.' used as an opener.

If you have a student or millennial on Pointless, especially if they sound posh, you can pretty much guarantee the second. Pisses me right off.

This one
Hun
Adding an s on the end of supermarket names ie. Aldis (I only see that here and it makes me seethe ).
Gifting

"Youse" when referring to a group of people

Further to the frying off and swapping out already mentioned:

Printed off
“There’s a pandemic on.”

@LadyEggs - oh yes definitely; I forgot about 'Look.' Blair and Cameron did it a lot - it felt very manipulative. Just fuck off with your assertive 'I know I've fucked up but I'm going to brainwash you into thinking I'm super decisive and in control, you utter pleb.'

To pp who asked about 'pork tummy'... no, but I can't stand people who ask for 'belly pork' instead of 'belly of pork'

@burritofan

Why? What do you prefer to call it instead? Loo? Lavatory? Loo. Never, ever lavatory; I’m not Carole Middleton.

Now, I hate "loo". Such a twee, mimsy sounding word. It really puts my hackles up.

Toilet or lavatory is fine, although in my house it's the bog, which some find coarse. I don't even mind "shithouse".

My current bete noire is "reach out to". Just contact them, for fuck's sake!

One I see on here a lot is "women" used to mean "woman". I don't think some people realise it's the plural. Such as "I was so annoyed with that women".

Agree completely with "boobing"...also just "boob" - "does she want boob?" . There was a thread a while back about someone celebrating their "boobiversary".

Would love to throw in
Would of
Could of
Should of

Hate these too, @DroopyClematis.

I struggle to restrain my inner pedant, who wants to say, in very snooty tones, "Kindly conjugate the verb "to of"".

Cleanse instead of clean.
Nucular - if you can say new and you can say clear, you can say nuclear, FFS.
Reaching out when you mean talking to or contacting.
Across the piece, but that has to do with a former twat boss who loved to use all sorts of ridiculous management speak jargon.
Nan or nanny are people trained and paid to look after small children, not grandparents.

Super as a prefix
Myself

'This gives me the rage' at seemingly innocent words expressions.
If poor English gives you the rage then get help.

@waitingforsun

How everything is 'gorgeous' now. Gorgeous cardigan, gorgeous nails, gorgeous crocheted item, gorgeous colour, gorgeous hair. Urgh!

Even worse when people write it "gawjuss". AAAAAGH!

Boomer - for people born in the 1940s

YES. And any generational term , especially if used as an insult: whether ""Boomer", Millennial", "Gen Z", etc. Not really that different from calling people "Frogs" or "Rosbifs". Stereotyping people according to when they were born is not much better than stereotyping them according to where they were born.

'Virtue signalling',.

'Woke' and especially 'wokery'. Or 'gammon' for that matter. Just say left-wing or right-wing.

I don't like "these bad boys". For example, used in the context of new running trainers: "look at these bad boys I got today". Why are they bad and why are they boys?

Maybe I am too literal.

Also, I think I've mentioned this before, but the demise of the preposition "about". We are now excited "for" things we are looking forward to, or excited about. And we talk "to" things, rather than about. Why?

Current most hated is everyone saying things like “this impacted me” or “impacts my life” rather than “had an impact (up)on

Oh yes. You may be impacted by an asteroid, but otherwise you are affected by things.

Gotten

Mom

Chimbley instead of chimney. I know a grown woman who (pretends she can't) say chimney properly.

Gran/Grandma/Granny so old fashioned.

@Robinred81

Calling a cup of tea a “brew”

I didn't know this made me mad until I read this and now I realise it makes me sizzle.

However the word that grates me is "incandescent".

Basically I hate everyone basically saying basically all the time.

I basically noticed my teenage son does it basically all the time. And I've basically caught it off him.

@HaveringWavering

“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.

I hate this too. And "rads". They're radiators!

@steff13

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.

That's the way my husband pronounces it (he is from London).

I always used to pronounce it al-mond (parents from north west). But I feel self-conscious saying it like that in the south-east though I still pronounce class class and not to rhyme with arse.

@sobercuriouskind

And anyone from America saying "Erb" instead of "Herb". Just sounds wrong and makes me feel queasy. Sorry anyone from the US.

Yes! Also the when they pronounce Basil, Bayzul.

Totally agree !! Gran and grandma remind me of an ancient pensioner with white hair sitting in a rocking chair by the fire knitting .
Nan much more glamorous

When someone says Nan I can only think of Catherine Tate