Words I Don’t Like.

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.

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

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.

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!!!

CalendarGirl
Spinster - like Miss. Marple? ??

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

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.

Dear. Hate being called dear.

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.

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

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…

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.

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 ?

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.

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

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 ?

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.

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 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

And to take your loved ones along for the ride.

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

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.

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?

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