Most disliked words of phrases

Interviewers who say “I can’t wait!” when told of upcoming book/film/album/tour. Chief offenders are Alison Hammond, Alex Jones, Claudia Winkleman. Claudia loves to say, “I literally can’t wait!” Er, yes, you literally can!

MaggsMcG

Un-alived. Is just another way of saying dead. Its all to do with what "triggers" peoples mental health. I'm sorry but just changing a word is not going to make that much difference it still means the same.

Axed instead of Asked.

It is what it is - it must be a new thing coz I dont recall it being used as much before.

I used to teach IT to young adults of Afro Caribbean heritage and they just were not prepared to accept that the spelling "Aks" was wrong.
Then I found that actually “Aks” has origins in Old English and Germanic over a millennium ago, when it was a formal written form. Apparently it has been preserved in the patois of the West Indies.
It isn't the form that is acceptable to us now, but I suppose that it's hard to change if you've been brought up with that version.

The word “like” used every third word of a sentence
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“See you later” by a stranger on the phone - first of all I cannot see you now on the phone so definitely won’t see you later in person

Grow a pair. A thoroughly sexist comment, and often addressed - without thought - to women!

"bless!". I heard a check-out lady saying this to the elderly gentleman ahead of me who was fumbling with his money. I thought, 'Well, I'll make sure she doesn't say that to me' and got my card ready for the machine. So I wasn't blessed, but she did say, 'Have a nice day',
I can't stand children being called 'kiddies'. Don't ask me why. It just riles me.

No words

Absolutely

I'm on a roll here!:

"Super". We need more descriptive words than 'super': large, huge, big, massive, big, etc.
"Game changer"
"You've got this"/"we've got you"
"Gifting"
"Passed"
"Invite instead of invitation"
"My bad"
"One another" instead of "each other" (but maybe I'm wrong - I usually associate each other as between 2 people/2 objects, and one another is more than 2 people/objects.
"I'll write you". (Instead of I'll write to you/write you a letter.)
"He/she wrote me". (instead of he/she wrote to me/wrote me a letter).

"End of"

As a closing 'sentence'.

Unforgiveable, a phrase and attitude I can never forgive.

Like Mr Darcy, my good opinion once lost is lost forever, of people who use this terminology which I believe is intended to put the closing seal on a debate.

So.........

Wanna and gonna instead of want to and going too
Holibobs
Lol/Lolz. ''Lol'' is Laugh Out Loud but it also means Lucifer Our Lord1 HA!
Bae.... whatever that is supposed to mean!
Crimbo/Xmas and Happy Holidays instead of Christmas/Merry Christmas ... I'm Atheist
Sorry not sorry
I'm not telling you off but...

Agreed about 'End of' - so arrogant.

I also dislike 'just saying', for similar reasons.

As ''muzak'' instead of music... I SCREAM LOUDLY!

Abbreviations like "merch", "gorge", "natch", "bear with" & so on.
It is what it is
I've got your back
I've got this
Holly bobs
Parents calling their children "mate"
Hubby/hubster
....and plenty more!!

It depends on the context but I think it's difficult, if you dislike the phrase 'my late husband' because:

* If you just say 'my husband' it gives the impression he's still alive...
* It sounds weird to day 'my dead husband' or 'my husband, (who is dead)'

I hate 'gotten'.

I have a degree. I have not 'gotten' a degree.

I have never 'gotten' anything.

And also when the word ''pretty'' is used before everything such as ''it was a pretty amazing day'' or ''I had a pretty useless job'' etc.! and every(thing) i(n) brac(kets) ... ''So (I) said (to him)...

Another screaming session from me coming up!

Ooh! Here's one that gets to me (I don't mind that i.e. 'gets to me' 😃 )

It's when people are sentimental about (the late) Princess Diana and they refer to her as the Princess of Wales's, or worse, Duchess of Sussex's late mother-in-law! She was never their mother-in-law! She died twenty six years ago!

Doodledog

Agreed about 'End of' - so arrogant.

I also dislike 'just saying', for similar reasons.

Oh yes! Just saying

It doesn't even make much sense really but I believe the author thinks he or she has made an important point.

Another turn of phrase that popped into my head is one that has irritated for a long time. It's a phrase used frequently by politicians.

I am clear...

To me it does not sound grammatical. Should it not be, let me make myself clear?

I am clear (full stop) simply sounds, well, rather silly.

While I am on a roll - politicians also, as we know, avoid answering a question with a direct answer. Tony Blair was a master of this technique. He would listen to the question and then say, Look.... Others say - when pinned down to answer directly, what you've got to understand is...

I do wonder if there is a small manual titled How to Avoid Answering Questions Directly laying around that they consult?

I hate men referring to their wives as "The little woman", at a party I once asked the wife "Does he take milk and sugar?"

When DH worked a lot of wives used the phrase, "We are on call", I always wanted to say," No you're not your husband is".

Pits for armpit I think of a coal mine.
An old one. It's probably the right word"They've hurt their lisk" when men had a hernia. Yuk!

'Property Ladder' as in 'They've got on the property ladder.'

It implies that people must keep buying ever more expensive houses! What happened to just buying a place to live in?

Problematic - what's wrong with problem?

"I'm not gonna lie"
Why, do you usually ?

"I literally exploded with rage.." (or any other emotion). No you didn't, or you would not be here to tell us about it. 'Literally' is rarely used in its literal meaning these days.

Would/could 'of' instead of 'have'.
'Protesting discrimination' (and the like) instead of 'protesting against discrimination'.

lixy that is for me too. So annoying.

See you later- no they won’t
Reach out to me
Hun
Babe
Yep
Nope