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Calendargirl Mon 12-May-25 10:48:24

My top three are;

Amazing.

Toxic.

Emotional.

CanadianGran Mon 12-May-25 21:13:02

Well, I use hubby all the time! I see it as a term of endearment. Maybe it's more of a Canadian thing, but it's common here.

Overuse of 'to be honest' is a pet peeve of mine. And literally, especially when used in the wrong manner!
I probably overuse lovely, but there are lots of lovely things, and the synonyms just don't mean exactly the same.

sodapop Mon 12-May-25 21:13:24

Hubby
Journey
So
The wife
The elderly

Skydancer Mon 12-May-25 21:28:57

Awww…bless!
Unacceptable
You guys
Double down
My lovely
Take care
Yeah (when written-I mean it’s quicker to write yes. I think it’s to sound cool).

User77 Mon 12-May-25 21:39:17

Top down. Get a grip etc.

User77 Mon 12-May-25 21:39:39

Double down

User77 Mon 12-May-25 21:41:29

Nucular. Unless you’re American the word is nuclear. It drives me mad.

Marg75 Mon 12-May-25 21:50:38

Grab as in 'grab a coffee'
Can I get when asking for something in a café 'can I get a coffee?'

Siptree Mon 12-May-25 22:17:27

Unprecedented, Bless, Cute.

Granmarderby10 Mon 12-May-25 22:22:39

Yeh whatever! 😂

JenniferEccles Mon 12-May-25 22:28:06

You guys. How could I have forgotten that?

Without fail it’s used everywhere, especially in restaurants, even when the waiter or waitress is addressing a mixed group.

Another awful imported Americanism.

V3ra Mon 12-May-25 22:39:11

Grab as in 'grab a coffee'

Marg75 one of the young mums I childmind for will message me and ask if I can "grab" her child from school.
It conjures up entirely the wrong scenario for me 😳

V3ra Mon 12-May-25 22:43:48

Babe
Hun

Harris27 you and I both work with much younger colleagues 😂

Crossstitchfan Mon 12-May-25 22:46:44

Mt61

Astitchintime

Turned round in conversation as in “ and he turned round and said xxxx and then his wife turned round and said xxx “.

Is that a Lancashire expression?

I live in the South East and I am familiar with it that expression, so probably not only Lancashire. It’s annoying. It might have originated there, but I am not aware of that.

Bellanonna Mon 12-May-25 22:50:22

Super, as in super quick. To me it’s super irritating.

Stilllearning Mon 12-May-25 22:51:07

Grab
Broken, as in, I was broken
Incredibly Politicians only work incredibly hard

V3ra Mon 12-May-25 22:57:37

It is what it is.

loopyloo the building contractor that worked on our house a few years ago used this all the time, I'd never heard it before.
It's passed into family folklore now! 😅

hollysteers Mon 12-May-25 23:38:38

Making memories

Macadia Tue 13-May-25 03:58:06

"honestly" and "to be honest"

I don't see the point of these.

Grammaretto Tue 13-May-25 04:38:01

Wow! used as a reaction to everything.

Grab. as in let's grab a coffee
Very unique
So to begin a sentence.

I'm good in reply to "how are you?"

LovesBach Tue 13-May-25 08:28:28

Crossstitchfan

Mt61

Astitchintime

Turned round in conversation as in “ and he turned round and said xxxx and then his wife turned round and said xxx “.

Is that a Lancashire expression?

I live in the South East and I am familiar with it that expression, so probably not only Lancashire. It’s annoying. It might have originated there, but I am not aware of that.

An extremely talkative school friend would come home with me often and regale my mother with tales of her family; 'So I turned round to him and said, then he turned round to me and said'. My Mother remarked dryly that her family must be in a permanent state of dizziness. The expression has been around for at least sixty years, and certainly in London.

Bellanonna Tue 13-May-25 08:56:16

Well, obviously, when it’s not at all obvious

Doodledog Tue 13-May-25 08:57:36

I think 'turned around and said' is quite dated now. I don't hear it anywhere near as often as I used to. A bit like 'At the end of the day. . .' - at one time, that was very common, but it seems to have fallen from fashion.

loopyloo Tue 13-May-25 09:09:13

Ok so what's trendy now?

Churchview Tue 13-May-25 10:01:44

The overuse of the exclamation mark!

welbeck Tue 13-May-25 10:02:43

Unalive has developed as a term to avoid being deleted by software that seeks out certain words.
Ha
Having been criticised for not stamping down on content that encourages self harm.
So certain trigger words and their cognates will attract automatic deletion.