Words I Don’t Like.

Chewbacca

I don't like hearing a married couple referring to each other as "mummy" or "daddy". Gives me the creeps.

I used to do that when the children where little. "What do you think Daddy?"
But never when the children weren't there. Then this became Grandad etc. I reiterate it was only when the children were there in the conversation!

I hate the new buzzword Woke.

hollysteers

EMPOWERED! Blinking everywhere.
Thank you Meghan, we never knew.

Another Meghanism - if you've done something or said something wrong you have to "own it."

Contemporary! I'm sick of it being used to describe features in properties or the properties themselves. To me it just means 'will date fast.'

Journey.
Nobody has a baby, goes through the menopause or any other normal thing without it being a journey.

I keep seeing the word "ditsy" in reference to a pattern on a dress. It is really starting to annoy me. "Ditsy"!! For heavens sake! Is it the new (equally annoying) "pop" of colour?

Chewbacca

I don't like hearing a married couple referring to each other as "mummy" or "daddy". Gives me the creeps.

when i was young couples who were parents frequently referred to each other as father/mother.
i rather like it, nostalgic. also it seems quite respectful, as having that role or title.
anyone remember an older or married woman being addressed or referred to as, mother, if name unknown, or mother surname, if known.
old mother reilly. on mother kelly's doorstep, etc.

patient pathway, as if one had chosen to get on that particular aeroplane, and its destination.

And to take your loved ones along for the ride.

I can feel my teeth itch when I see that someone is described as having issues. When did problems go out of fashion? I've got ishoos with issues

Chewbacca

I don't like hearing a married couple referring to each other as "mummy" or "daddy". Gives me the creeps.

Even worse to me Chewbacca is people who seem to think they're mummy and daddy to their dogs!

And I agree with MissAdventure that far too many people are going on journeys these days without actually going anywhere.

I also hate 'ashume' and 'conshume' am waiting for someone to say ashumpshun or conshumpshun. But that I suppose is pronunciation so going off track rather.

I really don’t like ‘fall pregnant’, ‘fell pregnant’, etc.
I never even heard it until my late teens (it was always, ‘expecting’, or ‘expecting a baby) and then it was used in the context of an unmarried mother. As an older woman said to a late teen girl where I was working, ‘Best put your name down for a house, love, in case you fall pregnant.’

I was once intensely irritated to hear some supposed minor aristo in a period TV drama saying, ‘…if she fell pregnant…’.
NO!. Such a person would never have used that expression.

I wonder whether 'fall pregnant' comes from 'the fall' - ie the Biblical Original Sin fall?

I will no doubt have used capitals wrongly all the way through that sentence - apologies to capitals pedants ?

Very possibly, Doodledog, but in the context I first heard it, I’d connect it more with ‘fallen woman’!

We always just said ‘get pregnant’. ‘Fall pregnant’ is really weird.

I do agree about ‘pop (of colour)’, though I have no idea why I find it so annoying. I get annoyed quite easily where words are concerned.

Witzend

Very possibly, Doodledog, but in the context I first heard it, I’d connect it more with ‘fallen woman’!

Same thing, I think - 'fallen woman' is definitely about Original Sin.

My grandmother (born 1912) used to say 'fall pregnant', so it's not new. She wasn't very tolerant of 'fallen women' either. In fact, she wasn't tolerant of very much, really ?

Lately we are all supposed to be Strong Women and give baby girls Strong Names. There’s also something called Agency, which I haven’t worked out yet, and things we buy are Curated. Things we make are Crated and you’ve been Crative with 2 syllables.
These words annoy me because they’re trendy, they’re not as ugly as War, Kill, Hate.

To ‘own’ or owning something not a material object, but our statements or beliefs.
Re fallen women; we fall in love, fall pregnant, fall out of favour etc. so maybe not originating in original sin…

I hate the word “nibbles” to describe snack food to go with drinks.

Chewbacca issues does seem to crop up more often where problems would do equally well.
I got my wrist smacked for saying problems. I was told my DGS had issues as a result of his being on the spectrum, but he wasn’t a ‘problem’.
My hates, apart from moist, sweaty and gusset are the new fashionables like woke and snowflake.

I dislike words and phrases that people use to try to dismiss others - End of! Get a life! Simples! are the first ones to spring to mind. All are meaningless and are just said to shut the conversation down and make the speaker feel superior.

Dear. Hate being called dear.

Mollygo

Chewbacca issues does seem to crop up more often where problems would do equally well.
I got my wrist smacked for saying problems. I was told my DGS had issues as a result of his being on the spectrum, but he wasn’t a ‘problem’.
My hates, apart from moist, sweaty and gusset are the new fashionables like woke and snowflake.

My DGS is also apparently on The Spectrum and he does have some problems. I feel that issues are far more serious and implies disagreement.

Grandkids.
Completely illogical I know, since I have no objection to ‘kids’, but there you go.
Ours will always be grandchildren.

CalendarGirl
Spinster - like Miss. Marple? ??