That Mumsnet should drop the D?

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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 don’t get it?

I agree with you OP, and going by the vote so do the majority. Which is really weird, it implies that people use it because they think it's some kind of rule! Why doesn't everyone who doesn't like it just start writing son, daughter, husband etc in full? Then it will just die out.

What you are really asking, OP, is "Can I go back in time to the dawn of the internet and get people to write properly instead of using these abbreviations that I am going to take against 25 years later. Kthxbye."

It's not something I use, but I cant really get exercised over anyone else's shorthand.

Then we shouldn't be following like DSheep .

I tend not to use the D (ooer 🤣).
There are lots of initialisms on mumsnet that I just don't get, sometimes I google them but more often I can't be bothered.

DEXP - cringey.

Around the time of the Covid vaccine rollout, it was being discussed why the vaccine was being offered to adults but not to kids. Somebody responded that the vaccine "hadn't been tested on DCs yet". Using DCs to mean the entire group of people aged under 18!

When I first encountered the use of dh (many moons ago on another forum) I wondered whether it meant Dopey Herbert/Harry etc. Or ‘dratted’ ditto. It took a little while to sink in.

And I’m another in favour of Ddog. What 🐶is not D? To me, anyway.

OPs like this make me dig in heels and refuse to bow down to demands.

D for the Win.

YES! I have noticed this loads too! DExH. WHAT!!!

I read this many times as it confused me , in my head it was DC -at. then the penny dropped, I dont think I have seen many DCats on here just DDOgs, can I have DDegu too please

It is horribly twee and particularly odd when it’s “my DH has just beaten seven shades of sh* out of me”.

Also in my head D can stand for 'dear', 'darling', 'dastardly'or even 'dead'

Are there posters out there using 'D' with gritted teeth, while hating it and wishing someone would start a crusade to stop it? Or are posters all just doing what they like or are used to?

I'm guessing it's the later.

There's no obligation - if you don't like it don't use it. It's fine.
If you can't bare to even see it don't come on here?

Not the minority according to the vote. Maybe if all 63% start typing properly, it'll catch on!

No. The posters here are mostly women and that's to be celebrated!

Men are welcome, but so are non-parents, so if you're going to include everyone who's actually here in the title, you might as well call it "everyonenet".

But then, how would it be different to Reddit? Or any other forum?

This is mumsnet, not parentsnet. And, I hope, unashamedly so.

Not the minority according to the vote. Maybe if all 63% start typing properly, it'll catch on!

Well exactly. The vote's odd, because no one's got our arms twisted up our backs to use it 😂

Use it/don't use it .... <shrug>

Never happening D-ream on.

gosh what an amazing and original thread

Mebbe Mumsnet should change their name to "Y". Just to be Trendy as Twitter has done 😂😂

I really don't mind it at all - all the usual abbreviations are like a sort of communal MN dialect that gives the place its salty atmos.

Also, some people are increasingly literal these days. 'DH' is just Mumsnet for 'husband' to my brain. I don't read it as Darling Husband any more than I think 'oh, that man is saying God be With You' when I hear 'goodbye'.

I once dropped the Ds mid post and realised too late, I thought "oh dear, I no longer belong here and will be outed"

I'm on this site that has its own recognised shorthand. I don't like it so I want it changed and the Vipers won't go along with it Should I flounce?

Yes

OK, you win the thread 😂

I suppose things can only get better. Badoom-tish.