TwinLolly
Chewbacca and Galaxy you are right about swearing replacing good English words! I can't stand that either.
Dad always used to say to colleagues who swore, to express themselves in better English! ???
Most of the swear words I know are good examples of very old English 
The English language has always evolved and always will. Whilst there are some phrases that irritate me, (such as saying myself, instead of I) I quite like to see a wider vocabulary being used; it enables greater articulacy. Anything is better than interspersing a conversation with effing and blinding simply because the user is too dumb to articulate themsleves any better! 
Maybe I'm being unreasonable and very menopausal but there are words that are getting under my skin.
* "Co-worker" seems to be a new word for colleague.
* "Super" this and "super" that instead of "very" or "huge", etc.
* "Denied", e.g. as in "he/she was denied entry" - instead of "refused entry", or other cases where the world "refused" would make more sense than the word "denied".
* Where has the word "donated" gone to. It's now "gifted".
* I get confused when reading a newspaper or magazine article where people are now referred to by their surnames only without the Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms. I lose the plot as to who is who 
. I'd prefer to referred to as Mrs Surname or my first name.
There are other words too, but I can't think of them now.
Rant over. Sorry! 
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