Waitlist

5 replies

TheChippendenSpook · 28/02/2025 07:56

Since when has waiting list been replaced with waitlist? ( not even two words, which still doesn't make sense.)

It's all over the Internet.

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Optimist1 · 28/02/2025 08:19

I've worked for decades in the travel industry; it's been used in connection with hotel and airline reservations forever. Much of travel terminology originated in US.

EdithStourton · 28/02/2025 08:22

I loathe it.
It's right there with 'upcoming' (coming, approaching...?). It was used three times in a short email from my former uni yesterday. They should know better, what with being, as they endlessly remind their alumnae, a beacon of academic excellence.

I deleted it.

JeanPaulGagtier · 05/03/2025 08:55

The abbreviations are seeping into language. I keep hearing "slippy" instead of slippery. I wonder if predictive text is to blame for some of them.

TheMorels · 05/03/2025 08:56

My gym app states ‘you’re on the waitlist’. It always irks me.

jackstini · 05/03/2025 10:59

I find it used more often as a verb - 'you have been waitlisted'

Agree with pp it is used a lot in the travel industry and always has been (or at least when I worked in travel a couple of decades ago)

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