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Any words or phrases that you can't stand?

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Dinahmo Mon 10-Feb-20 18:05:23

An early phrase that I loathe is "can I get" but a more recent one is the word curate which is used in place of collect, or select etc. Recent examples:

The Guardian" the BBC's failure to curate some news event responsibly"

A description of someone's collection of china pig money boxes (once given away free) as being "carefully curated"

A delicatessen which provides "a perfectly curated picnic"

To my mind the misuse of the word devalues the work of museum and gallery curators.

PernillaVanilla Tue 11-Feb-20 09:35:57

"myself" and "yourself" instead of "me" and "you" it has now become very widespread. if a salesman calls me "yourself" in conversation I don't buy, that is my one woman protest.

arosebyanyothername Tue 11-Feb-20 09:29:13

Starting a sentence with ‘so’
Saying somethink instead of something

annodomini Tue 11-Feb-20 09:21:14

Or should I say, as a 'perceived' intruder.

annodomini Tue 11-Feb-20 09:20:24

Insightful instead of the perfectly good English word 'perceptive'
Bradford, I take your point, but this is an example of two words with different roots meaning the same thing, 'Insightful' is of Anglo-Saxon origin, whereas 'perceptive' is of Latin origin. However, 'insightful' must be one of those words that migrated across the Atlantic and has come back as an intruder!

TwiceAsNice Tue 11-Feb-20 08:30:10

People who say was when grammatically it should be were, it really annoys me every time

Brunette10 Tue 11-Feb-20 08:23:42

Can't stand when a pregnant lady states that 'I'm about to drop it". A very uncouth phrase I would say.

travelsafar Tue 11-Feb-20 08:23:10

Oh and the expression 'Robust going forward' what ever that means!!!

travelsafar Tue 11-Feb-20 08:22:18

'Random' when talking about doing something unplanned!!!!

Nansnet Tue 11-Feb-20 08:17:29

A 'cheeky' Nando's/or whatever else is cheeky!

We had a 'proper' good laugh/good time.

off of

gotten

Autumnal ... Don't know why, it just irritates me!grin Why not just Autumn? Autumn weather/leaves/etc. We don't say Winteral/Summeral/Springal.

BradfordLass73 Tue 11-Feb-20 03:10:04

The use, lamentably often, of 'prodigal' to mean 'returning.
It does not mean returning.

Insightful instead of the perfectly good English word 'perceptive'.

'brackish' (water) to mean dirty. It means a mixture of salt and fresh, so unless you've nipped to the estuary to fill a bucket, the water in it isn't brackish.

'Bear with...' Even 'please bear with me' is bad enough.
'Long time no see' ugh.
'Kudos' used as a single word and 'hats off to you.'

I thought 'curate' simply meant 'taken care of' ? So a curated collection of pottery pigs would make me grunt into my trough.

Coolgran65 Tue 11-Feb-20 00:41:49

I’m with Luckylegs. I hate basically ...... especially starting every other sentence !!

Doodledog Mon 10-Feb-20 23:46:17

I've remembered another one - 'it was hysterical', instead of 'hilarious'.

SueH49 Mon 10-Feb-20 23:18:26

I'm afraid that I regularly use many of the phrases that others loathe. "Going to the toilet" is one of them although I do usually say loo. In many cases if I asked to go to the bathroom I would end up in a bathroom that does not have a toilet when what I want is the toilet.

My most loathed phrase is - my bad.

rosenoir Mon 10-Feb-20 23:07:43

The unnecessary or incorrect use of amazing, awesome and literally.

Callistemon Mon 10-Feb-20 22:57:44

Using the word 'watched' instead of looked after, eg 'I watched the DGC until they started school.'

chocolatepudding Mon 10-Feb-20 22:55:21

Sentences beginning so...........

My pet hate is .....so what!

Doodledog Mon 10-Feb-20 22:44:17

'Uni'
'Weird/bizarre' for 'a bit odd'
Hubby (and sorry, but also all the 'DH', 'DS', 'DGD' etc on here)
'At the end of the day, I turned around and was like. . .'
'Them things'

Bridgeit Mon 10-Feb-20 22:35:07

Passed ( same here Experiencednotold)
I have to bite my tongue in order not to make a comment.

Anniebach Mon 10-Feb-20 22:30:51

Hubby

At this moment in time

Good question , when asked a question.

The wife

Furbaby

Callistemon Mon 10-Feb-20 22:25:54

I do like discombobulated winterwhite
Sorry blush

Grandbaby
Furbaby
From the get go
Back in the day

And all the ones posted above (except discombobulated!)

And I would say 'loo' not 'bathroom

HettyMaud Mon 10-Feb-20 22:21:56

"in a heartbeat".

Naty Mon 10-Feb-20 22:15:18

"Go to the toilet"

Gross. Let's say "bathroom" instead.

ananimous Mon 10-Feb-20 22:03:37

I hate it when people forget the full stop/period. Sloppy.

NotAGran55 Mon 10-Feb-20 21:53:35

Gotten
Hubby
Like - used every other word !

annodomini Mon 10-Feb-20 21:42:28

Just about everything everyone else has said!