Words that make you snigger or cringe

yes, same in my class, they seemed to draw it up from their toes, internally. eech

dolphindaisy

I know some say it's the correct word but I hate "lavatory". Also always hated "sanitary towels". thankfully not used much now.

I always hated ‘lavatory’ too. It’s the word we had to use as children, but it always conjured up freezing cold loos and horrible hard Bronco/Izal paper.

Catarrh is my most cringe-making one. I just don’t say it…

123kitty I’ve never understood the origin of the word Nan, It doesn’t bother me, but my own mother was dead against it - she’d say a Nanny is a goat ? and of course it’s someone who looks after children on behalf of their parents…so probably quite appropriate for many.
I never had a grandmother for long enough but we say granny or grandma.
It does help to distinguish between the two sets of Grandmothers though for those lucky enough to have them?

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

I can't remember which, but one of the phone networks has "gurus" working for them.

"Colleagues" used for people who may well be either working in a horrible call centre with limited rights or on zero-hours contracts. Also as used by MPs, as I always feel (rightly or wrongly) that there is an implication that these "colleagues" are more important than the plebs like me. They both make me cringe.

Someone talking about their fellow-workers as "my colleagues" doesn't bother me at all.

What about beng described by your "colleague " as a " Co-worker" instead?

Yep, another cringe - maybe a slightly smaller one though, if you can have degrees of cringing.

Colleague when it's used to mean 'employee' or 'member of staff, as in Colleagues' Parking, or the shop announcement, Please ask a colleague if you need help.

Wheniwasyourage

Yep, another cringe - maybe a slightly smaller one though, if you can have degrees of cringing.

Yes....only just a few toes curling instead of all!!

Oldnproud

Colleague when it's used to mean 'employee' or 'member of staff, as in Colleagues' Parking, or the shop announcement, ^Please ask a colleague if you need help.^

A local Asda used to have a large sign saying, ‘If you can’t find what you want. Please ask a colleague.’

Being a grumpy old pedant I was of course tempted to point out their error of punctuation, and also to ask how any of my colleagues at work would be able to tell me where the red lentils were.
But I didn’t - water off a duck’s back. I did once aeons ago write to their head office, because there was an insert in every single trolley in the entire large store saying, ‘Pot Noodles - snacking at it’s most intense.’

They replied saying it was ‘poetic licence’.

there used to be a snobbishness about the word, nan/nanny for GM, less so now perhaps.
some m/c people forbade its use in case they were tarred by w/c associations.
think hyacinth bucket.

AussieGran59

Expert.
Everyone is an expert nowadays. How can one be a ‘relationship expert’, for example?
Maybe I should describe myself as an ‘expert eater’?

Yes especially as one I knew was divorced and onto her third partner. Another had left her first husband for beating her in front of the children. I can see with her how she would want to help and hopefully she would give unbiased advice.
If their not "experts" they are Dr's. The rug Dr, the furniture Dr The chiro practitioner with no formal medical training.
Only people with PhD,s or M.D.s have the qualifications to really call themselves Dr

Baggytrazzas the first few times I saw this term written down, it was without a hyphen, and I read it as cowworker and spent longer than I should have ? puzzling over it.
I had the same problem on the TV program guides when something was called a miniseries and coop (as in: your local Co-op). Is it just me.

Granmarderby10

Baggytrazzas the first few times I saw this term written down, it was without a hyphen, and I read it as cowworker and spent longer than I should have ? puzzling over it.
I had the same problem on the TV program guides when something was called a miniseries and coop (as in: your local Co-op). Is it just me.

Not only you Granmarderby10 - for years I pronounced the co-op " the Cope" then changed as I head others, but I now see recent signage without the hyphen so am not sure if the pronunciation has changed again!

I can't get the words Snigger or Cringe out of my head now.
Only they keep getting transposed... so Crigger and Sninge are haunting me .
I call the Co-op the Coop.. as in chicken coop. I like it.
I think the heat is getting to me today. My head feels weird so please excuse me!

Henetha, you can consider yourself duly excused until you feel better. Each time I read through this thread I have to leave part way through as I am helpless with constant sniggering and cringing and end up having to go away and calm down. I've told several people who have queried my sweaty red face and runny eyes that I must have hay fever !
And as for your Sninge....I'm away again.

Great sninge, Baggytrazzas . I'm not the only bonkers one! It's the best way to survive. Good luck with your "Hay Fever"...

I think sninge deserves to be in the dictionary!???

me too, but we would need to be very clear with the meaning otherwise some folk might think it was a smutty reference to an already smutty word describing a female body part !

Some posters on other threads have been discussing their rotten plums. That’s got me amused, as it sounds like a medical condition.
Simple things, eh?

Georgesgran

Some posters on other threads have been discussing their rotten plums. That’s got me amused, as it sounds like a medical condition.
Simple things, eh?

omg ive just logged on and youve set me off again.

sounds like some anti fungal treatment is required at the very least.

Oh yes...sninge rhymes with ....... !!!!!
What an interesting Limerick we could write!!! ???