Modern words that annoy you!

JackyB

I love "My bad"! So succinct and quite apt where an outright apology isn't really called for.

Agree.. I have used it, it covers a lot.
It's obviously a "Marmite" word.

Guys!! Overly. Majorly. Normalcy. Like. Not actually a word but a rising note at the end of a sentence - makes it appear as a question.

High school. We have secondary schools.

“She slid into his DMs”. Had to ask my son what this meant. Still not sure. Thought DMs meant Doc Martin boots.

Hun!
I absolutely detest being called hun! Whenever I’m gifting or selling on fb etc I can guarantee someone will message me saying ‘can you deliver hun?’ ‘Can I collect tomorrow hun?’ I also support a local rescue organisation and they’ve taken to calling me hun! Aaaarrrrggghhh!
Call me love, duck, petal, Mrs, pal……..anything but HUN!

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joannapiano

“She slid into his DMs”. Had to ask my son what this meant. Still not sure. Thought DMs meant Doc Martin boots.

Direct Messaging...on social media. Usually means sending someone a private message in a flirting context.

Thank you ViceVersa !

All of the above.

When a police spokesperson says “we are working at pace” on the case.

‘Reaching out’ it sounds so supplicant and needy compared with just ‘contacting’. When organisations use it it’s grating.

The term "Wowser!" used enthusiastically. I think it's an American expression, a declaration of sublime delight.

Sets my teeth on edge.

Virtually all of the above, plus an ordinary word which has been hijacked and used in the wrong context or, frankly, anything which is totally incomprehensible to me!

The words that I had in mind have already been mentioned.

My bad, the ick, super (he was super keen, the car was super shiny). Awful.

SpinDriftCoastal

High school. We have secondary schools.

My old grammar school was boys only but merged with the girls' grammar school in the 1980s. The boys' school building became a high school. Where I now live, the local senior school, now closed, was a high school.

High school was the official name for both.

Wowser is not modern. AI says that wowser originated in Australia around 1899, meaning a censorious, puritanical killjoy. It then seems to have a UK origin meaning a person who is always complaining.

Gifting, ick, fur babies, and rainbow bridges.
Journeys instead of illnesses, amd reaching out.

Drop / dropped.

The Rolling Stones new album has just dropped - no, it has just been released / gone on sale.
The latest range of footwear has just dropped - no, it has just been launched / gone on sale.

Perhaps I'm just getting old.

Wimbledon players always saying...super special, super iconic, super historic.
Happy Days...said sarcastically.
Bless after anything that is perceived to be cute

A pop of colour.

Some of these I really like (gotten, can I get..., my bad)

I don't think "property ladder" is very modern, I'm sure I've heard that used back in the mists of time...

Nearly all of these but I use super instead of very - super sorry your sweet peas have died. Sorry!

My hate is ‘as such’ used for ‘in that capacity’ or just ‘therefore’ - He was chairman. As such he opened the meeting.

Oreo on the southern TV news (don’t know what they call it perhaps Thames TV) they say ‘Top of the hour* it really annoys me. 😏

We have high schools in Scotland. The Americans must have taken the name from us. 😉

I heard "Riz" for the first time from teenage DGS.
It's short for "chaRISmatic" apparently.
Hmm. Jury's out.

"Picky bits" gives me the ick 😅 It's just food FGS.

So does "bric a brac". (Clutter!)

I don't mind bric-a-brac (as in a school fête stall) but picky bits sounds so unhygienic and makes me think "no thank you"!