Words I Don’t Like.

Crevice, forbid, punish,dictate,expert, influencer,glutton, hilarious, " sorry for your loss ", " let's join hands", Emma Thompson.

I dislike the word soporific.
I thinks it's because a person I know uses it instead of 'sleepy'.
He thinks it sounds posh, but of course he's using it incorrectly.
I have to say that he 'properly gets on my nerves', another phrase I dislike intensely.

Without hesitation the F word has to be the one I despise most. Although an action carried out by both human and animal life never the less hearing it used so much as an 'expression' makes me cringe .

Notsooldat75

‘Widow’ for me ( I actually am one, too!)
Also ‘thigh’, ‘moist’ and people who start every sentence with ‘So….’

What I think is very wrong is how some official forms try to force widows and widowers to identify as single.

Where I worked for some time the rule was hat people were listed as Single or Married, but someone who was Widowed or Divorced could opt, if the person so chose, to be listed as Widowed or Divorced. That seemed to me a sensible and humane way to do things. Even if the widowed person gets exactly the same benefit as a person who has never married it would be humane to not try to force a widow to declare herself as single if she does not want to do so.

Quirky is one that grates on me, seems to be a favourite on the antique shows.

So, Meat, and what does the S word stand for? Anyone!,

Interesting that moist heads the list so far. It has no unpleasant connotations for me. I like my cakes and meat to be moist and juicy.
Surprising that the word lavatory features. W.C.(water closet) and lavatory are the proper terms (as used by the Royal family for example). Common as muck people use the term toilet, or so my mother always said and we were working class. Personally I couldn't care less though I do find the American term rest room annoying.

JaneJudge i watched it too, and cringed a bit,also grease is similiar language wise
I sometimes have subtitles on and only realised what some of the actual lyrics were when i read them
Would not be allowed today
Please don't let them be banned though love those films

Fart - (can i say this!) I really don't like this word.

Notsooldat75

‘Widow’ for me ( I actually am one, too!)
Also ‘thigh’, ‘moist’ and people who start every sentence with ‘So….’

I agree about widow
For reasons I still don’t understand I had to fill in my marital status for a restaurant loyalty/discount card not long after DH died .?
That was the first and last time I ticked “widowed”
Now I tick “married” if I have to opt for anything

Georgesgran

We are having a local dispute at the moment and have involved our local Councillor - Mr Bill Moist!

Lucky he’s William and not Richard ?

Grandma70s?

Granda. It's commonly used in Scotland and N.Ireland to refer ro a grandfather. In my family it was always Grandpa but I only recently realised we were unusual in using that name. I'm not keen on nana or nanny either. Prefer Granny.

The term ‘non-U’, meaning not upper class, was in fact coined by Professor Alan Ross in an academic paper, but was popularised by Nancy Mitford.

We were not allowed to say toilet either at school or at home. It had to be lavatory.

I dislike the use of the words nanny, nana etc for grandmother. A nanny is either a female goat or a nursemaid. I didn’t hear it used in my childhood, but it seems to be used a lot now.

Amazing. Isn't it amazing how many things / people/ events/ are amazing!

We are having a local dispute at the moment and have involved our local Councillor - Mr Bill Moist!

Ah, thank you.
You're the first person to ever answer that.

Non U; words which designate people of lower social stations.
Coined by the snob Nancy Mitford.
My mother in law was scathing about toilet etc.
I could go on and on……..

Lost, passed, passed away, passed over. Or any euphemism for dead, died or death.

Now there is a phrase I dislike intensely.
What does "non U" even mean?

Certainly agree with amazing.
Although disliked, lavatory is the U word, toilet definitely non U. and frock is U not dress. (If we care ?)

Hemorrhage - horrible word for a horrible experience.

Speculum? Isn't that a French biscuit?

Bluebell. Yes! Hun, hubby, fur baby.