“Lovely”

I told the young woman who washed my hair and gave me a head massage at the salon today that it had been lovely and thanked her for it. I immediately felt guilty about using lovely and wondered if I should have said nice or terrific or brilliant or beautiful or joyful instead.

I also admit to overusing the word lovely. I will have to get more creative with my vocabulary.

SueDonim sometimes things and people just are lovely!

Lots of chocolate for me to eat, lots of smells coming from my feet (my dad's version)
Oh, wouldn't it be luvver-lee?

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Crossstitchfan

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Apparently, there's also a greeting among the 'bros' with street cred, or wannabee gangstas...

"bless up"

... which can be used on greeting or departing...

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts on here. I can be a grumpy old git and pedantic at times and also get irritated at overuse of words and phrases......Sometimes to the extent that I'll throw in some 'clever' remark. Words are important- they are a means of communicating with our fellow humans and animals. But we know the difference between the same irritating words when they are used with warmth and affection , ( I have been known to address my daughter as lovely girl) with sarcasm, condemnation or simply as a speech habit. When I overuse words it's usually habit or laziness. I can generally forgive others for this but tend to be less indulgent with myself.

Dickens

Crossstitchfan

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Apparently, there's also a greeting among the 'bros' with street cred, or wannabee gangstas...

"bless up"

... which can be used on greeting or departing...

I saw a GP once who kept saying "Ah, bless" as I described my symptoms to her.
Never saw her again, she was only with the practice for a few months.

HousePlantQueen

grandtanteJE65

There is a fashion in language as in everything else.

Remember our school-days (late 1960s) when everything was "fab"? Then "fantastic", "groovy" and more recently "awesome".

"Lovely" instead of "nice" will go the way of all the others. It is harder to predict what the new term will be.

My English teacher was very critical of the word nice.

We were forbidden to use ‘nice’ and ‘get/got’ by our English teacher!

Nowadays it seems everything is ‘stunning’, and online I see people saying they are ‘obsessed’ with something they like.

I had an interesting day out, a beautiful day out, an enjoyable day out, some other words that spring to mind instead of lovely or nice. Sure there are many more