Most disliked words of phrases

Germanshepherdsmum

Oh yes BlueBelle, WE are pregnant. Ghastly phrase. 😡

I hate that one as well, and "In the family way." What family what way, where, how`````?

Actor/ Hero being applied to women. Should be Actress/ Heroine

Forward planning is another annoying tautology. Is there backward planning ?

Do you know what I mean.

Well, yes or if not, I would ask what you mean.

winterwhite

Ladies, as in ‘do any of you ladies…’, and esp as in ‘she is one clever lady’

My partner also objects to Ladies as in hello Ladies when he is also there.

We need to talk....

There's always someone worse off than you...

Would of (should be "would have"!)

See you later....

Obviously... Literally...

Its like, ya know...

😕

Apologies if I have missed it but 'no worries' gets my goat.

As does 'gets my goat'.

"There's no smoke without fire" I'm never bothered by any other words or sayings. This, however, will see you immediately and permanently excluded from my life.

Ladies, as in ‘do any of you ladies…’, and esp as in ‘she is one clever lady’

People saying thhhan queue instead of thank you

I've noticed that a lot of politicians (of all stripes) start answers to interview questions with 'Look. . .'

It makes them sound as though they are talking to a recalcitrant teenager - I wish they'd stop.

Why do people start a sentence with 'so' ?

'So I was just about to go for a walk when the phone rang.'

I'm afraid using 'sat' instead of 'sitting' is here to stay, so we might as well get used to it. This is being used everywhere and no-one bats an eyelid so it is becoming the norm.

Making memories
Hi Guys
Little family
All make me cringe.

GrandtanteJE65, if any editor or undertaker had taken it upon themselves to alter my ‘died’ to ‘passed’ or ‘passed away’, I’d have had to have Very Strong Words with them!
They can keep their twee euphemisms to themselves.

Stop ‘with’ the (whatever it is)
I’ve just seen it (yet again) elsewhere.
The ‘with’ is quite unnecessary!
Just stop whatever it is!

Have a nice day now.

It's kindly meant, but one of the first times a shop assistant said it to me was five minutes after my sister had been told she had cancer. I bit my tongue hard in order not to snap at the well meaning girl behind the cash register.

And every time I hear it, I am back in that shop on that day.

I am afraid we can't get people not to use euphemisms for death - I wrote the notification of my husband's death stating that NN had died on 1. November after a short, serious illness.

It had been carefully edited to read that NN passed away etc.
I did not take it up with either the undertaker or the editor, but I would have preferred them to use what I actually had written.

Like being every 3rd word.

The wife
She passed away-where to?

She has recently passed- where to because I did not notice.

Aw bless

Being called madam- I do not run a brothel.

Going to a Help Desk and being asked if I am okay. My last reply was I would not be here if I was okay.

When someone says they lost their husband I always want to say how careless
But do resist

Sassanach512 Obviously not a scouser. Kiddow as the name was frequently given to younger siblings Especially big a brother to his little sister
My pet hate is this moment in time. What’s wrong with now

Yes "the wife" annoys me as well eddiecat is she a communal wife ? I don't remember hearing " the husband "

I don’t like ‘lost’ in phrases such as “She lost her husband”. My
husband died. I didn’t lose him.

Euphemisms in general tend to annoy me.

This one's a little difficult to explain - because it is the thinking behind it rather than the word itself.

The word is Legend.

When it is used as a noun to describe a person.

It should be reserved for those who are either famous or notorious.

I've continually seen the word used to describe an individual who is completely unknown to anyone but has his five-minute's worth of fame in the media because he did something outrageous, or said something outrageous, or achieved something that was mildly out of the ordinary.

Here's an example. A man in his late sixties married a very much younger woman. He was simply the man on the Clapham omnibus who no-one had ever heard of but nevertheless was holding forth in the media; unsubtly hinting at his prowess in the bedroom (an article accompanied by a photo of said man with beaming much-younger-woman looking at him adoringly).

"Man's a LEGEND" was one of the first comments. And simply "Legend!" from another further down.

If ever there was a mis-use of a word - this is a good example of it. I always find it mildly irritating.

Laters!

Doodledog

silverlining48

Oh yes all the turning round before saying anything.
There really is no need.

At the end of the day, I was like 🤷‍♂️, so I turned around and like said that it is what it is.

😂