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?

Naice.
It’s NICE and we all know what you mean about a naice (nice) neighborhood!

"Bloods" as in, "Have they taken your bloods yet?" 🤢

@JoanWilderbeast

Are you the ghost of Nancy Mitford? as per *@flippityflip*

I’m accepting this question as a glorious compliment whether you meant it that way or not – thank you! as per @burritofan

Dear lord, this sort of simplistic binary position of being "Us" (as in a middle class Labour voter) with its concomitant, fallout out free, moral high ground assertion, or "not Us", is tearing the Labour Party apart.

Do you mean my comment? It wasn't intended as an assumption about the status/class/background of the previous poster and more me being amused at the list of words that annoy them being so similar to the lists of words that classed people in a particular way that Nancy Mitford referred to.

Nigella Lawson hates 'tasty', apparently.

Businesses which call themselves Something-Smith, except for those which always have, such as a blacksmith or silversmith.

We used to have the baker, the greengrocer, the chemist, the butcher, the florist. Now they're called things like Breadsmith, Vegsmith, Drugsmith, Meatsmith and Pollensmith.

Yummy.
Scrummy.
Nom nom fucking nom.
Hun.

Absolutely agree with all of these!

Artisan
Forever anything - they even use it for furniture now
Can I get
Homage

Work Fam🙈

Dear lord, this sort of simplistic binary position of being "Us" (as in a middle class Labour voter) with its concomitant, fallout out free, moral high ground assertion, or "not Us", is tearing the Labour Party apart
That’s quite a stretch you’ve got there, hope you warmed up first.

@ACPC

People 'living their best life'. Oh just fucking exist without a fan fare like the rest of us do, you absolute tool.

@ACPC - totally agree with you. Since Meegain said " It's not enough to survive, you have to THRIVE, Right?" everyone is living their best life, thriving as they go, with their Red Lip, wearing a Jean, to their Forever Home which is "curated" in grey. These people probably have fur babies and blue sky moments. So effected, whatever happened to normal English language!?

Haven't read the full thread so these may have been mentioned, but I hate the word "gastropub" referring to a pub that serves food. Always reminds me of gastroenteritis or gastric acid, not very appetising.

"Bragging rights", fucking hate it.

"You do you", "living my best life", fuck off.

Hate it when people say such-and-such has "passed on" or even worse, just "passed". My brother always uses it and I say "passed what? wind? his driving test?" I don't mind people saying someone's "passed away", but "passed" drives me mad!

And the usual twee words like holibobs, hubby etc.

Oh, and "grub" for food. Sounds sounds something you'd give a pig.

Date night!

Guys referring to their girlfriends as The Missus.

Actually, anyone referring to their significant other as The Missus.

‘Veggies’ makes me want to punch someone. Similarly ‘fab’

…overuse of ‘excited’…

“Dinner!”

“Ooh, good. I’m so excited!”

“It’s beans on toast, not a dirty weekend in Vegas.”

@TrishM80

Haven't read the full thread so these may have been mentioned, but I hate the word "gastropub" referring to a pub that serves food. Always reminds me of gastroenteritis or gastric acid, not very appetising.

"Bragging rights", fucking hate it.

"You do you", "living my best life", fuck off.

Hate it when people say such-and-such has "passed on" or even worse, just "passed". My brother always uses it and I say "passed what? wind? his driving test?" I don't mind people saying someone's "passed away", but "passed" drives me mad!

And the usual twee words like holibobs, hubby etc.

I’m sure the people who have suffered the loss don’t give a shit what you think about their choice of language. Have some compassion!

I’m sure the people who have suffered the loss don’t give a shit what you think about their choice of language. Have some compassion!
I agree with this. I hate “passed” but think whoever is bereaved gets to choose their language. For me, it’s died/death: when registering a close relative’s death at the registrar, we said “we’re here to register a death” and he said “who is it that has passed?” I wanted to reach over his desk and batter him with his office sign, which quite clearly stated he’s the registrar for births, deaths and marriages, not births, passings and marriages. Just mirror language in this situation, even if it’s not your favourite.

Agreed @burritofan.

Also, I can’t quite get my head round how, when someone talks to you about a death, your gut response is a self-centred “oh your choice of language drives me mad”. I am a linguistic pedant par excellence but even I know there are times when it’s not about me!

Graft or grafting for work or working.
It was hard graft.
Aaaaargh.
Makes people sound like they've been stoking furnaces in a factory for 12 hours rather than sitting at their desk fannying about with wording an email.

@Tiramiwho

"Bloods" as in, "Have they taken your bloods yet?" 🤢

Oh you'll hate me then. I get bloods done every 3 months and have done for 4 years ( 3 - 5 tubes every time) and I've never called it anything else. What am I supposed to call the procedure?

Picky bits
Cool beans
Top banana

Ooh picky bits 😖 I hate that one too!

@BubbleCoffee

Businesses which call themselves Something-Smith, except for those which always have, such as a blacksmith or silversmith.

We used to have the baker, the greengrocer, the chemist, the butcher, the florist. Now they're called things like Breadsmith, Vegsmith, Drugsmith, Meatsmith and Pollensmith.

I haven’t noticed that, but I’m irritated already.

@NorthernLion

And on a local level, my DC have developed a verbal 'blah blah blah' tic, which they insert over anything they can't be bothered to explain but which are invariably the key parts of every sentence, eg, 'so, yeah, I saw Milly in town, and she was like blah blah blah and the baby's due in like, Christmas or something?'

Preferable to "yada yada yada". Aaaaaaaargh.