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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?

Babs758 Fri 12-Mar-21 13:38:27

Innit
"Is the Pope Catholic?"
Panties
Rainbow Bridge
Passed as in Died
"as the case may be"
"shall I be mother?"
Hun
"so," at the start of a sentence
"would you like anything?" when being offered alcohol when my partner knows I am trying to give up!

ixion Fri 12-Mar-21 13:37:32

Ever sat in the Discharge Lounge then at your local hospital??

BlueSky Fri 12-Mar-21 13:33:33

Pants for both. Agree ‘panties’ and ‘knicks’ does make me cringe!

PipandFinn Fri 12-Mar-21 13:29:04

Panties. Drives me nuts. Can't understand why Men have 'underpants' but Women have either Panties Or Knickers..... !!! I've now claimed the word underpants for myself.....grin

Sarnia Fri 12-Mar-21 13:26:48

Phlegm. Describes it in all its glory!

Niochorio Fri 12-Mar-21 13:20:41

I don’t know about words that make you shudder, but I used to teach a girl who became hysterical with laughter if she heard the word sachet. Also a boy who couldn’t bear the word cheese, which was quite difficult sometimes in our Food Technology lessons. You can imagine what the other children in the class enjoyed doing.

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.

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

People who use the word amount instead of number!

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

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

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"

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

‘Oh my days’

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

That should be " It's " smile

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

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...

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.

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

Buttocks makes me cringe

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

JenniferEccles

Meghan and Harry.

Those words many of us shudder now.

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

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

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

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

Kate1949

Belly which seems to crop up a lot now.

I hate belly too.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

Twenty quid