That Mumsnet should drop the D?

[PlinkPlonkFizz]

Adding D to all family, friends and pets is ridiculous! To see adults referring to their "DH" who has subjected them to assault or abuse is particularly nauseating. And DDog! FFS! Is it not just time to drop the D?

I love ddog and I don't mind the d at all really. I'm not sure a huge forum using established over many years abbreviations are going to change it due to a random later requesting 😅

Gosh that takes me back
I was on ivillage when I had DD they had boards for babies due Jan etc…was mostly Americans.

It's not obligatory OP, just put H if it bothers you.

The context usually makes it pretty obvious 😆

DS is either Dear Sister or Dear Son. DN is either Dear Nephew or Dear Niece. Occasionally it's Dear Neighbor. It's confusing. Or when people leave off entire words and punctuation to make their typing faster. At some point, the abbreviations make your post unreadable.

I hate it! Always have. Accept I am in the minority.

So unnecessary adding D to everything. D nephew. D next door neighbour. It was supposed to be text-speak. To make things shorter. Not to randomly add a frikkin capital D to everything. I should chill out. D chill out.

When I first started to use Mumsnet, I remember being deeply confused at a post in which someone was upset that her child's GPs weren't going to the school Christmas play. It took me far too long to twig that she meant grandparents, and not that she was expecting the family's doctors to take the afternoon off 😂

Dyou Dcant Dstop Dus.

I hate it and think typing ‘DNeice/DNephew’ etc is just idiotic.

Posters on Mumsnet.

And GP. Doctor, grandparents or Guinea pig. “My GP bit me the other day”. “GP didn’t give my DD a birthday present”.

In my job there's a business we deal with who has a long name, and they abbreviate it to the initials... TTC.....
The amount of times I've said Trying To Conceive when I see it.... thankfully not out loud to anyone 🤐

I have 2 dd's
2 ddogs
and 1 ddhamster

just stop using it yourself if you don't like it.

It makes me cringe and I have never done it. Ddog is just ridiculous.

I love it. It's part of MN.

As someone already said above, DFish is my favourite.

It's part of Mumsnet

If the alternate is the puke inducing "hubby" then I'm all for it

Only commenting to be childish

haha …. the D

Tbh I’d be more likely to call my dog my dear dog than call anyone else in my life dear

Well DMe and DSusanfromacrosstheroadanddowntwo agree with you

The accepted custom used to go e.g.
DD1, 14,
DS1, 11,
DS2, 8,
DD2, 5 etc, but that seems to have been long lost.

I use it (and have been here 18years) but cringe every time I type it.

😂

"D"H

😂

It's not obligatory though. People can say 'husband, wife, son, daughter etc." If they want.