Hatred of certain words/phrases

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In a supermarket and heard a middle aged woman say 'OH! You've got back off your holibobs then!?'

What is wrong with saying 'holiday'? I actually cringed when I heard it.

Feel free to add your own...

Gifted/gifting/gift... hate it, what's wrong with given/giving etc

Triggered..

Devastated is so over used. Mildly upset has become devastated

"I can't help but think". I don't care if the combination of "I can't help thinking" and "I cannot but think" has become common, it's still a double negation and still irritating.

Gift/gifted etc is much older than terms like present/give a present etc.

It's odd (yet interesting) how archaic uses suddenly come back round again.

I've only seen it written though, tbf, and only in commercial enterprises - advertising, shops etc. Nobody I know has ever actually said it.

The fact that an almost identical construction exists in most (if not all) Latin based languages has historic linguists believe it passed from Latin>>>English in the Victorian age.

It's been in common usage since then.

That’s interesting, thanks!

"In any way, shape or form" winds me up for no good reason!

Also " cut, copy and paste", a colleague says this all the time when she's just using copy & paste. Using the extra cut winds me up, again, for no good reason.

We need to touch base.
Slide into my DMs.
Hope that helps.
Take it on the chin.
All the feels.
[Trivial thing] is giving me life right now.
Give your head a wobble.

I think there's only one I can't stand (and its accompanying emoji makes me want to throw up as well)

Yummy.

I belong to a few cooking/recipe groups on FB and people post what they've cooked. People comment with "looks yummy" and that licky-lippy face. Urgh.

Ah, the wonderful Caroline Aherne as the gormless weather girl, Paoula Fisch.

Nothing she could have said was ever wrong ...

Actually, that nonsense gobbledygook 'Channel 9' language with the odd (rude!) English word that inexplicably made sense was comic genius! Sounded so lifelike to my untrained, non-Spanish speaking ears. Here's to Chris Waddle ...

I'm with you on that, makes me murderous

Or even comments like. Eggs Benedict. Yum.

Fuck off with that. Yum is not a complete sentence. Makes them sound thick

I dont mind partner if they really are partners. What I cannot bear is someone posting about their "partner", but as their post goes on it turns out they are talking about someone in another country whom they have never met in person!

Or someone they've been seeing for a week

Totally agree on hollybobs!

I also have a hatred of calling McDonalds "Maccies".

For me;
"McDonalds" is a place to grab some meh food in a hurry on the motorway at midnight or a happy meal for a kids birthday.
"Maccies" Is a place to get car jacked by a gang of lads in baseball caps and Adidas trackies (not trying to be offensive there, that is literally just the image presented behind my eyes ebery time I hear it)

I am also developing a hatred for the word "applause" but that's because I watch a lot of TV like panel shows or comedies with subtitles on And when the audience clap and it says applause my brain reads 'apple sauce' and i get confused, I have to blink and physically shake my head like a hard re set to realise they meant clapping. Never had any other kind of brain reading errors apart from ebery time with that word so I'm blaming the word itself! 🤣

@OneTC

DH genuinely thought it was Chesterdraws (one word for him) until recently when he was selling some on marketplace and his phones auto correct wouldnt recognise it so he asked me.
The look of pause and amazement on his face when I explained where he was going wrong was hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
He thought it was a product name taken from a brand or place like "Sheffield Steel" or "Chesterfield" sofa or a hamburger . He thought the design came from Chester so that's why they were called chesterdraws.

@KoalaChaos - are you Australian? I've always heard the common slang for it here as Macca's. (The one that makes me cringe is the American "Mickey D's".)

Oh! I also have a friend who consistently gets 'borrowed' and 'lent' the wrong way round which enrages me every single time.

"Yeah so he borrowed me his pen so I could sign"

LENT! HE LENT YOU HIS PEN! AND YOU BIRROWED IT!

Thankfully we are the kind of close where we can correct each other and not be offended so I do. So now she makes an effort. You can really see her trying but it still always comes out wrong. It end up turning into

"OK fine, so I lent his pen so I could sign" 😑🙄😵‍💫

I have tried but I can't come up with a way of explaining which way round they go that works.

She got it right once in a conversation, but because she knows it's a word that stresses me out she said a sentence CORRECTLY, (cue internal happy dance from me) paused, then said "sorry it's the other way round isn't it" and corrected herself back to the wrong way.

@Catsmere
No. In UK. Its maccies specifically that bothers me more than the aussie maccas.
I hadn't heard maccies used in a few years then read it on a different post on MN yesterday and winced.

@KoalaChaos ah, I just wondered because of your username. I'd never heard of Maccies before this thread. It almost seems twee, just reading it and imagining the sound and having no associations with it.

@Catsmere Ahhhhh. Yeah. Forgot my username. No just a koala obsessive brit. Crazy koala lady with them on mugs and pillows and canvas pictures all round my house. 🤣

Since previous chat on the thread says some of these are regional I'm from the Midlands. Maybe it's a midland thing? But if so the woman who wrote it on the other thread yesterday lives closer to me than I thought.

@KoalaChaos How cool! You'd pair quite well with my sister, with her it's kookaburras on everything (with me it's cats). 😄

"Delicious" Cannot. Stand it. Makes me cringe, no matter the context.

Also, all of these new ridiculous turns of phrases, such as ".....is sending me" & "...gives me life" or "I need that in my life"

JUST USE THE REGULAR, TRIED & TESTED ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

My toxic trait is….

God, to add to the yum and yummy crap, i give you

(As seen on a macaroni cheese thread)

"I make mine with ........ yum yum"

FFS

Brekkie. Makes me wince

Smol. Is it just a baby way of saying small? Or am I missing a hidden meaning?