to ask why "pop" seems to be replacing literally every other verb in existence?

[wallpoppy]

I feel like this is getting worse all the time... was at the doctor on Friday and the nurse asked me to pop my bottoms off and pop myself on the table and she'd pop back in just a moment and then once we were settled in she said she had to pop out to get some smaller gloves and then she came in and said let me just pop these gloves on and we'll get started and then when that was done she had to just pop some notes into the computer and then she told me I could pop my clothes back on and the doctor would pop in in a few moments and not to forget to pop into reception to make my next appointment. I thought I was losing my mind. Does she not know any other verbs? It's not just her either, everyone is popping to places or popping things onto surfaces, no one goes anywhere or puts anything.

With cooking the rot set in with Delia Smith in the 70s and 80s. She was forever ‘just popping’ things hither and thither. Jamie then moved onto ‘just bunging’, ‘just chucking’.

Pops of colour irritate too.

"I'm not convinced that "I prepped dinner" trips off the tongue more lightly than "I prepared dinner""

Surely 'prepped dinner' means chopping, mashing, putting it in the cooking trays to cook/ heat later. Like prepping a stew to go into a slow cooker? If not then I agree that it's used wrongly.

@wallpoppy, as said the HCP was using it to sound non aggressive. In some places it would be part of a regional accent/sayings (are we allowed them in your world?). I'd say that it's probably you spending your teens in the US and it being used differently that's causing such a reaction. Although I know quite a few people whose first/second language isn't English and they just don't get our sayings.

Agree that pop is totally overused in health care settings. A lot of people are anxious so It's easier to go to a 'reassuring' language setting rather than trying to gauge a person's feelings in the 10 seconds between walking through the door and sitting down.

I would imagine their would be plenty who would complain about their HCP being brusque if they had said take your trousers off and lay on the bed. So you can't win.

There not their 😊

It's only replacing a couple of verbs like put and go

I used to sell large pieces of furniture. I had a van . People would always ask if I could just 'pop' it to their house. They seemed to think that using the word meant there would be no delivery charge even if their house was 20 miles away.