To want to ban the use of certain words

Kind regards! Can you get unkind regards? I thought Regards was correct?

Company reorganisation........redundancies.

A takeover??? (but not hostile)

Goodness! until I saw a post saying this was morphing into Pedants' Corner, I really thought it was.

Another one that annoys me is the over use of...love you.. Dropped in at the end of every phone call etc, completely emotionless, I even found my mother in law saying it to me! I know she loves me but I'd rather hear it occasionally with more feeling....or is it just me?

ariated
That's a good word GJ
What stressed out opera singers become instead of aerated???

I love (which means I don't but it gives me a laugh)
This door is alarmed

<calm down, dear>

Teenzy55

Disabled toilets , who wants to use a disabled toilet? It should be 'toilets for the disabled'. And I really don't like 'a disabled room' in a hotel.

When did 'sick' become the word young people use for 'amazing'?

Young girls usually,saying to me 'ah bless you' and 'no probs',it's all good and no worries' when all I've done is made an appointment to have my hair done.

Why do people (usually young ones) constantly say "Oh my God".
Everything seems to be "amazing" is another annoying one.

People who use smart arse long fancy words but get them wrong
Nothing wrong with the right word even if it is a bit unusual, so I am not advocating dumbing down, but I do think they should take care to use the right word.

Male/female toilets. Sanitary ware is genderless, in our language at least!

Absolutely.....

'Sneak peek', or worse still, 'sneak peak'. Just because it rhymes doesn't make it true - this always means 'carefully orchestrated early press release'.

'Naughty but nice' - I'm not going to spoil something nice by having negative thoughts about it, thank you. They should just say 'has chocolate and/or cream in it'. Or Bailey's.

Related phrase: 'Go on, spoil yourself'. What are you spoiling by enjoying something, often something with cream or chocolate. Or Bailey's. If the other person really thinks you're about to break the scales or succumb to liver disease, they shouldn't offer it to you. What they really mean is that if you refuse it, you will feel guilty if they have whatever it is themselves.

"Fantastic" when it isn't; "y'know" when I don't; "I'm good" in answer to "How are you?". But then I'm a pedant.

"No problem" in response to a simple request. Quite often I will say that I didn't know there was a problem!!

Some people just love 'getting down with the kids'

Should of instead of should have
On the weekend instead of at the weekend
Cool meaning that's fine
I'm good instead of I'm fine

The list is endless...........

Oh yes 'my bad' certainly has arrived in the UK,*leurMamie*.

I don't think it's taken off in that big a way over here though (thank goodness!

It hasn't arrived in Britain yet (has it?) but no doubt will: "my bad", meaning my mistake, or sorry. I told my American niece to say "mea culpa" if she wanted to be posh.

As a self-confessed pedant, I heartily concur with everything posted here, especially how ANNOYING it is to hear "like" in every sentence (sentence? What's that?) Here in Scotland the verb "to say" has been replaced by "to be": "I was like..", "then she was like". Arrrrgh. Do the English do this too? Worst of all is when middle-aged people speak like this, perhaps in an effort to communicate to teenagers. (Or just to sound younger??)

I hear what you say

Must haves - what happens if you don't have it? -end of the world?

Great or marvellous

said by the person on the phone when all you have done is give them the details they asked for.

That's a bit Rebecca of sunnybrook farm, granjura

I'd like to ban nasty words, unpleasant and unkind ones- life's too short to get ariated about words- but a smile and a laugh is fine- but language is full of humour, and evolves all the time.