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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.

Redhead56 Tue 10-Aug-21 19:59:06

My grans both had outside loo with newspaper on string charming!

MissAdventure Tue 10-Aug-21 20:02:13

Toilet and toileting.
I hear these a lot at work.
"I'm just going to toilet Mrs. Whoever".
Repulsive.

mrswoo Tue 10-Aug-21 20:05:06

I hate Douche-bag. A horrible Americanism that my ex dil used too often to refer to someone she considered stupid.
Also, the word eatery seems to have crept into the English language. It makes my toes curl.
I also hate the word fruits. The pleural of fruit is fruit. Why people have started adding an S is beyond me.

ddbfamily3 Tue 10-Aug-21 20:14:03

Widow - has to be the saddest word in the world.

Calendargirl Tue 10-Aug-21 20:39:01

spottybook

Diarrhea. A difficult word to spell and as a word it sums up a horrible word picture.

Diarrhoea.

To remember how to spell it-

Dash In And Rush, Run Hard, Or Expect Accident.

Happysexagenarian Tue 10-Aug-21 20:43:05

The F word
The C word (not Christmas)
Sh-t
Fa-t
Arse hole, though I can tolerate arse on its own
Hun
Babe
Belly
Spinster
Sprog
Fanny and Pussy when referring to the female anatomy
Mom - in fact all Amerianisms. They make a mockery of our perfectly good English language
I could go on and on........

LadyGracie Tue 10-Aug-21 20:49:19

Ain’t

valdali Tue 10-Aug-21 20:50:50

Chronic
Focus group
Fur-baby

Antonia Tue 10-Aug-21 21:01:07

kjmpde

the new trend of "LIKE" throughout a sentence when interviewed

Exactly. Almost all young people are unable to complete a sentence without using a superfluous 'like' every few words.

Lucca Tue 10-Aug-21 21:20:45

Antonia

kjmpde

the new trend of "LIKE" throughout a sentence when interviewed

Exactly. Almost all young people are unable to complete a sentence without using a superfluous 'like' every few words.

Hardly “new trend”. Students were doing it well before I retired so I’m talking more than ten years ago.

Lucca Tue 10-Aug-21 21:21:11

Happysexagenarian

The F word
The C word (not Christmas)
Sh-t
Fa-t
Arse hole, though I can tolerate arse on its own
Hun
Babe
Belly
Spinster
Sprog
Fanny and Pussy when referring to the female anatomy
Mom - in fact all Amerianisms. They make a mockery of our perfectly good English language
I could go on and on........

Please don’t.

Whatdayisit Tue 10-Aug-21 21:31:33

Hun.
My dislike of this word as a form of address is probably unhinged.

Nightsky2 Tue 10-Aug-21 21:41:35

Cool as in, it’s great, lovely idea,, I love it. its nice.

Callistemon Tue 10-Aug-21 22:09:30

Mom - in fact all Amerianisms. They make a mockery of our perfectly good English language
People from the Midlands say Mom

Button - can't stand that word
And lots of other words on here eg panties, phlegm,

gob as in spitting or gobby
pox

GrannyGear Tue 10-Aug-21 22:14:46

I don't mind any words said or written in full. What I can't stand are euphenisms : f-word, s-word, n-word c-word etc - If you want to use a rude word, then use it but don't replace it with

Ealdemodor Tue 10-Aug-21 22:19:02

Infuriated me when actresses are referred to as actors.

Kryptonite Tue 10-Aug-21 22:20:46

Best practice.

Dressagediva123 Tue 10-Aug-21 22:39:13

Awesome - irritates the hell out of me !

Nell8 Tue 10-Aug-21 23:06:44

For some unknown reason I don't like saying the word "breast" even though I am the owner of two of them. I worked with a lady who had the same inhibition. She came up with the substitute expression "chimney chest".

Enchantress Tue 10-Aug-21 23:47:19

I agree, "With child" is so much more poetic and discriptive.

Enchantress Wed 11-Aug-21 00:18:42

The above was in response to another poster mentioning the word pregnant as an annoying word.

Lollin Wed 11-Aug-21 00:28:23

Any Swear word

Savvy Wed 11-Aug-21 00:34:38

Its the shortening of words that irritate me, fab instead of fabulous, natch instead of naturally, and don't get me started on the word lush.

Also, 'should/would/could of' when it should be 'should/would/could have.'

Doodledog Wed 11-Aug-21 01:32:18

On the lines of ‘should of’, I don’t like ‘them ones’ instead of ‘those ones’. Are these things not corrected at school?

Lucca Wed 11-Aug-21 03:01:51

Enchantress

I agree, "With child" is so much more poetic and discriptive.

Seriously??!!