To cringe every time I see or hear "only (x) sleeps until Christmas"? What’s wrong with "nights" or "days"?

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"Sleeps" sounds so deliberately infantile to me. I loathe it. It's completely unnecessary even for young children - if they are so young they can’t understand the concept of days or nights they will almost certainly be having more than one sleep/nap every 24 hours so counting "sleeps" will be meaningless anyway.

I cannot stand adults saying this. Anything where adults act like little kids makes me squirm.

It's very easily messed up by having a nap.

Yes, yes....I loathe this too! I first heard it when working in a boarding school. It wasn't the children who said it but the adults, the children just looked at the staff as though they were nuts. Who the hell says "sleeps" anyway? I hate it. It's so many DAYS until the end of term/Christmas/New Year or whatever, always has been.

I say it sometimes. Now I know it annoys you, I'll police my language and stop. Maybe. Maybe I'll use it more often?

I hate it. I had to stop shopping at Asda because they had signs in the entrance announcing the number of them left 😣

I don't like it either. It feels twee.

Tough day? 🤔

"Hubby" is another one I hate, and I dont even really understand why?

Oh don’t be a grump! 😂 I get what you mean, I actually hate when I hear adults saying it to other adults etc. however, I do think years ago I remember explaining to my son that he had 3 more bed times or whatever until Santa came because they really don’t grasp the concept of days and nights etc so I’d explain it by ‘sleeps’ I don’t think I used that word exactly, also I’d pick 7 books or stories etc for bedtime that week and say when we got to the bottom of the pile that would be Christmas so I get the concept of sleeps but yes - the terminology and the way it’s used is very irritating.

Me too. I have no idea why but I cannot stand it!

How many sleeps is it until people stop being so grinchy about everything?

People on here are absolutely nuts

Is it a bit daft because for young children they a : can't count
b : have several sleeps a day
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I'm not sure I could refer to my 'hubby' and keep a straight face.

Sleeps, Holibobs and I was today years old can all feck off, along with tradwives, gingham, facelifts and pumped up speech impediment lips, off they feck, wrapped up in a big bag of E number sugary vomit and propelled through time to Texas in 1957 where they belong.

🎶 After all there’s only one more sleep til Christmas 🎶

Oh really?

I was sure it was new.

I'm in my 40s and only heard it within the last 10 years.

Wasn't sure where it came from. One of those things that just exploded and was suddenly everywhere.

I find it similar to how people recently always say "looks like": "what does your Christmas look like? What would life without your husband look like?" Etc etc. what's wrong with the standard "be like"?

I'm in my 40s and it was a thing when I was a child so definitely not new. Maybe it's regional?

Shopping centre in town has this. Please avert your eyes if you're easily offended by harmless frivolity.

My 2 year old doesn’t understand days but he understands sleeps. Especially as he doesn’t nap any more.

Thank you this is what I was going to say. I’m 43 with a higher degree and I find days ambiguous for the reasons you state above - measurement of time in sleeps is much clearer terminology which my young children can understand.

YANBU it grinds my gears.

I used to work with a bloke who sent a daily email to the whole office counting down the ‘sleeps til Santa’ even when quite a few asked him to stop he carried on.

What on earth is wrong with hubcap? What else are you supposed to call them?

No, it's just my personality!

I think that might have been an autocorrect from hubby.

Might start calling mine hubcap now though.

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That did not even occur to me for a second - I’m a bit over sensitive - my hubcap fell off the car when I was driving and I’ve been phoning up garages to ask about getting a new one - I was very embarrassed to think I’d been using the wrong terminology!