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Words that make you shudder

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grandmajet Thu 11-Mar-21 19:18:56

My daughter’s partner cannot stand the word ‘moist’. If you use it to describe a cake, for instance, it would quite put him off!
Do you have a word you hate, and is there a proper reason for your feelings?

olliebeak Fri 12-Mar-21 12:28:52

'of' being used instead of 'have' - grrrr angry.

Krispii Fri 12-Mar-21 12:32:29

Irregardless (I know it's not even a word)

Lucked out ( as I don't know if people are using in the English understanding, as in being "out of luck", or the American as in being lucky.

Gotten

Passed - passed away is acceptable in my view.

GrannyBettie Fri 12-Mar-21 12:32:54

Gusset - makes me shudder.

More than hating any of the words on here, I cringe when I hear people talking with a rising sibilant. I heard someone who was in their sixties using it the other day!

Rufus2 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:33:08

Words that make you tremble ??

"Your dinner's in the frig!"

esgt1967 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:33:19

Along with moist, the other word that always makes me shudder is discharge. YUK!!!

grannybuy Fri 12-Mar-21 12:36:00

Cops for police. Our local newspaper has taken to using this - makes me think of children playing cops and robbers, so harder to take the news seriously.

Krispii Fri 12-Mar-21 12:38:48

And this one I heard on the BBC radio new this morning:

Twenty quid

lovebeigecardigans1955 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:41:06

Panties, TV, belly and bitch. I prefer to say sew instead of stitch because of the 'stitch and bitch' phrase.

PamelaJ1 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:42:28

On the phone to the vet my DH said, “THE WIFE will bring her in”. If the dog hadn’t been in pain I wouldn’t have gone.

He’s never said it again?

Lucy127 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:47:14

Lush
Hun
Shit
Poo
Absolutely
F word, T word, C word.

Madley Fri 12-Mar-21 12:47:37

Bad boy! Can’t stand to hear it or see it written.

cc Fri 12-Mar-21 12:48:45

Kate1949

Belly which seems to crop up a lot now.

I hate belly too.

cc Fri 12-Mar-21 12:51:17

Charleygirl5

I agree, passed or passed away. I feel like asking- where to?

Me too, the person died

GreenGran78 Fri 12-Mar-21 12:52:40

Fur-babies, and ‘crossing the rainbow bridge’.

cc Fri 12-Mar-21 12:52:51

JenniferEccles

Meghan and Harry.

Those words many of us shudder now.

Hilarybee Fri 12-Mar-21 12:54:23

Buttocks makes me cringe

cc Fri 12-Mar-21 12:59:35

Chocolatelovinggran

Invites instead if invitations: to invite is a verb, invitations the noun. Have been known to correct speakers on television..

Really irritating, "have you had your invite?" Is just plain WRONG.

cc Fri 12-Mar-21 13:01:32

SecondhandRose

Haitch yes!!! I hate it too. You don’t call Y a Yiy so why Aitch Haitch.

Horrible! But some otherwise normal people I know use it and don't seem to be aware how uncouth it is...

lexigran Fri 12-Mar-21 13:04:46

I agree with so many of the above !
One that annoys me is "congradulations"
Its a T not a D angry

lexigran Fri 12-Mar-21 13:09:42

That should be " It's " smile

kangaroo73 Fri 12-Mar-21 13:10:36

‘Oh my days’

Lettice Fri 12-Mar-21 13:11:19

"The girls/girlies" for breasts.
"Skedyool" for schedule
The lazy missing out of the letter "t" in words. e.g "My name is Pa'erson, with two ts"

GreenGran78 Fri 12-Mar-21 13:12:25

‘Loose’, instead of ‘lose’ seems to be very popular, though I can’t think why.

Sueki44 Fri 12-Mar-21 13:12:39

People who use the word amount instead of number!

Growing0ldDisgracefully Fri 12-Mar-21 13:13:39

Hack. Seems to be a very recent change to the use of the word - to me it suggests chopping something up savagely!
Something pronounced as somethink.