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Words I Don’t Like.

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Calendargirl Mon 09-Aug-21 18:28:29

Spinster.

Makes me visualise a thin, grey-haired, timid, sad lady.

Very out dated for today’s hip young singletons.

Ali08 Fri 27-Aug-21 07:44:54

I've never heard of 'patient pathway' until reading lots of comments.
I imagined a nurse guiding a doddery old patient along a path just for nurses with patients, but I'm probably wrong. I'll have to look it up. If I remember.
When someone says, "I aksed." "No, I didn't see any axes. Did you see any axes?"
Ditsy has been around since before my mum was born, I'm sure, and she was a 1920s baby. I quite like ditsy.
Never sure what 'Kitsch' is.
My grandsons are on the Autism Spectrum and that can be problematic, but they have problems with us as much as we can have with them. We try not to make a big issue out of it! ?
Hmmm, I digress!
Grrr 'somethinK' 'anythinK' - don't teachers learn how to speak properly before they are left with our children/grandchildren?
Spelling tests really need to be brought back in to teach children how to spell, and therefore how to say, words!!!

Witzend Fri 27-Aug-21 09:01:46

I’m seeing ‘early doors’ a lot lately, instead of just ‘early’.
Who on earth started that one? Once I’m a dictator there will be a special place in my rat-infested dungeon reserved for people who start daft expressions.

hollysteers Fri 27-Aug-21 11:40:56

Dame. I know it would be a great honour to be damed, but I still wouldn’t like the word.

Scribbles Fri 27-Aug-21 21:58:17

hollysteers

Dame. I know it would be a great honour to be damed, but I still wouldn’t like the word.

I agree, holly. In the very unlikely event of anyone offering me a damehood, I'd simply refuse because the word invariably brings to mind the likes of Frankie Howerd and Les Dawson in pantomime drag - a completely unfunny entertainment i.m.o.