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......

I'm not objecting to greens. The PP I was replying to was objecting to "empties" and then noted that she herself had said "nibbles" was ok. So I was just pointing out another long-established adjective-cum-noun. I thought the use of the winky emoji made my jocular intention quite clear, FFS.

I’m late to this so it’s probably already been posted but ‘living my best life’

"Golf green" is an excellent example of the flexibility of English: the noun "golf" used as an adjective, and the adjective "green" used as a noun.

I wasn't sure, which is why I posed it as a question. I apologize for the misunderstanding.

My bad!! 🙄

Invite instead of invitation.

Adding "beets" to the slaw list.
It's beetROOT.

This is my pet hate. I deliberately say "invitation?" immediately after anyone says "invite" as a noun, pretending I misheard so as to not get thumped.
I'm told that language changes over time. Well, I'm doing my best to change it back.

Unless you are in the US or Canada where it's "beet."

Ha! Yes, I agree with this.

I hate ‘girl dinner’. Just say you had toast or whatever

'It's not that deep' is my current top hate, closely followed by 'at the end of the day', and 'I was today years old'.

No worries, and apologies that my reply was a bit brusque - your post came across as a lecture but I see that wasn't your intention. The perils of written communication with strangers!

Perils indeed. 😊Thanks for understanding.

Hun

It feels both patronizing and overly familiar a lot of the time. I don't much like it when DM calls me 'dear' for much the same reasons.

To be fair
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Swearing on their children’s lives

Babe/Babes

Probably mentioned already.

Noone.

It’s two words. No one.

Mumma bear. My 45 year old friend has just written this on an Instagram post where she's taken her mom to the Ivy for lunch. It's just so childish.

God. How nauseating. I’d be judging.

That's just poor spelling. The correctly spelled phrase is indeed irritating.

I can't stand the baby talk words that seem so common these days.

I don’t object to ‘greens’ when people are speaking of ‘village greens’, but saying ‘Have you eaten your greens?’ seems annoying and wrong.

The whole philosophy behind that description is degrading to the act of eating meals, as if fresh green plants are not an intrinsic, basic and very important part of all good food.

‘Afters’ and ‘Sides’ seem irritating too.

I had a recipe recently that required "greens" . I had no idea what it was supposed to be so just made the recipe anyway and it tasted fine.

Spring greens are greens.

I don't like food items being shortened. yorkshires, eccle, roasties etc.