Words that make you shudder

Grandma70s

I’ll probably offend a lot of people with this one, because I know it’s very widely used, but I cannot stand nanny/nan/ nana used for grandmother. It really makes me cringe.

I agree with you!

I moved to Scotland in my late 20’s & one of the words I hate is ‘Hen’ a Scottish word for a woman

I like the Spanish word Servisios ( not sure I have spelt it right ) or Washroom . Toilet sounds awful

I actually quite like “no worries”. Maybe because DS lives in Sydney.
Lucca Just as well because Brisbane appears to have introduced a series of selective shutdowns from today because a doctor has tested positive for Covid.
Unfortunately there seems to be no end because "Covid keeps "shifting the goalposts!"!
Good Health to you and your Sydneysider!
OoRoo

"Gob"! I would have thought it would be obsolete by now, but obviously not, looking at some posts.
Reminds me of an English TV satirical take-off prog. called "Gob of the Day" following "Goal of the Day" a very serious Sports prog back in the 1950s/60s probably before most of you were born
It was a Power Point display similar to the Goals. Many perpetrators performed as soon as they trotted onto the pitch, much like to-day's lot.!
What also brings that to mind and no disrespect intended, is every time I see players "Take the Knee". at the start of each game! {
OoRoo

Alexa

RO mance and ICE cream (American) instead of roMANCE and ice CREAM(English).

Because that makes me think the speaker learns how to pronounce from bad films made in the US for a mass audience.

??? RoMANCE. Maybe but equally I’d say of a film “it’s a RO mance “

I actually quite like “no worries”. Maybe because DS lives in Sydney.

“No worries” (I am not worried Thankyou).

You could also be ‘gathered to your fathers’ Rufus - that’s quite a nice old-fashioned one and rather more elegant than what my dds often use - ‘cark it’.

Most euphemisms make me shudder, like ‘pass (away)’ instead of die
Grandma70s Euphemisms are designed to replace words that make you shudder!
I'm all for them! They provide an opportunity to exercise one's artistic, creative juices, as many classicists have long demonstrated ; as we say "Clarse beats Harse any day of the week!
Speaking for myself "Others may "die", but I'll "shuffle off my mortal coil!
OoRoo

GOBSMACK. I absolutely hate the word!

Ealdemodor Oh yes - 'pensioner' is patronising, but OAP is much, much worse and should be forbidden especially on these forums!

The phrase "going forward" everyone in the media says it after every sentence at the moment and "unprecedented" ( not sure thats the correct spelling!)

Hate hate hate the word pensioner.

'Tits' is plain ignorant as referring to breasts. 'Tits' is a form of 'teats' which are nipples not breasts.

RO mance and ICE cream (American) instead of roMANCE and ice CREAM(English).

Because that makes me think the speaker learns how to pronounce from bad films made in the US for a mass audience.

Unprecedented

Namanom was a saying my DD ex used for meals

Xmas instead of Christmas.

Of instead of have. Grr. Really gets my hackles up!

Babe and fur babies.

global pandemic

Amazing - it’s over-used. Passed instead of died. Panties - creepy! Belly - don’t know why but I don’t like it. Tits - can’t say it and I hate it!!! And the expression “super excited” or “super keen” or anything super, really.

Oh yes all that corporate speak JackK
but Moving forward.... parking something that isn't a vehicle.
The worst thing is I find myself saying these things, I hear them so much. So..... at the start of every sentence
Don't worry grandmajet we'll all be speaking the new language by the time we meet. (sigh)

Do you remember right after every other word? That's out of fashion now.

‘Birthing’ a baby, instead of ‘giving birth to’.
Sounds so wrong.

And it doesn’t actually make me cringe, but I do wonder why a very new infant is nearly always a ‘newborn’ now, instead of a new baby.

Forward planning as well JackK