Words and phrases that drive you insane...

[Ducksbehindthesofa]

Certain words (usually nonsense or pseudowords) and phrases really grate on me, sometimes to the extent I don't bother reading the rest of a narrative if I stumble across a word or phrase on my hit list, halfway through something.

There are plenty, but a few to kick off:

Holibobs. It's not even an abbreviation for goodness sake.

Chillax. Just why?

"You do you" - this seems to be the in phrase at the moment, especially with the younger generation. It always sounds vaguely condescending to me

Chrimbo. Please, no

Nom nom nom. This one is right up there with holibobs!

Your turn......

Bowel movement is a euphemism. Just a more polite one than "having a shit."

When people refer to the Police as Cops, or the Doctor as the Doc. It grates on me so much.

'First World problem'. It's so dismissive. But we're in the First World, so are none of our problems or troubles to be given any weight?

Fur baby babies- they are animals, stop being so stupid

So is 'prostrate'.

I've noticed it. You're not the on'y one (see what I did?).

Another one I hate is 'close of play today' we don't play at work so why not just say by the end of the working day

I thought that too.

Exactly. So many people on this thread and on MN at large don't know the meaning of get. Look it up.

If I say to the barista at Starbucks, "can I get . . .", it doesn't mean that I expect them to let me take a flying leap over the counter and make it myself.

You're correct. Thanks ~ I was thinking of 'supine'.

People that continually say "obviously" when it's not obvious. Also literally when it isn't!

It makes me giggle when people call my hound a "fur baby". He's 45kgs and huge.

I hate hybrid dog names. Labradoodle is just about acceptable but cockapoo, cavapoo and jug??? What's wrong with just saying XY cross.

Also playdate ' sounds so twee.

You smashed it !

When someone has just done well.

What's wrong with just saying XY cross. It doesn't sound fancy.

That’s made me think how annoying it is when people, often well educated, well spoken types, speak in that lazy way that misses letters out. Bravaman did it the other day in her defection ‘speech’. I heard her 3 times on the radio say ‘Conserve whip’ missing out a whole half a word! It didn’t seem so bad when I saw her on the telly, but that’s definitely what it sounded like on the radio.

If you could possibly describe a way of speaking as entitled this would be it. ‘I’m so posh and obviously well spoken I don’t need to try to be clear’.

Suella Braverman is not remotely posh, nor entitled. If she gabbles her words and speaks a bit indistinctly that is just her style of speech. She's not some drawling toff from an upper middle class background. That's all in your imagination.

Just because someone is bright, got themselves a good education and leans politically to the right is not automatic evidence that they have been super- privileged.

Her parents were immigrants of Indian heritage. She grew up in Wembley and went to a state school before going to a minor independent school on a scholarship. Her mother was a nurse and her father worked for a housing association. Her parents named her SueEllen after Sue Ellen in Dallas. Aristocacy she ain't.

Twenny instead of twenty. Sadly it seens to be the norm these days

Feds is even worse! when I was a drugs worker some of our service users who were no strangers to the criminal justice system used to go on about their run ins with the feds

Let me rephrase. The way of speaking I’ve referred to is definitely a thing I’ve come across in my life. And she sounds like that.

This is a natural feature of some accents. Criticizing it would be similar to complaining that non-rhotic speakers don't pronounce "r" in farmer.

I forgot two other MN abominations - ‘judgy’ and ‘judgy pants’.

@RitaIncognita , it wouldn't.
farmer /ˈfɑː.mər/
twenty /ˈtwen.ti/

Unless you're 6 years old NOBODY should be using the word 'tummy' instead of stomach! 🙄
When and why did the word stomach become unacceptable anyway? You can hear and read the childish 'tummy' used everywhere and often, I hear it on the radio and TV, read it in books and newspaper articles, it's even used on the NHS website and worst of all is hearing adult men say it! UGH!! 🤮

Stomach and tummy don't mean the same thing, @Cariadm .