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Modern words that annoy you!

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NanKate Sat 25-Jul-26 07:57:09

At the top of the hour, instead of say 12 o’clock or Noon.

Grammaretto Sun 26-Jul-26 09:27:23

I had a bric-a-brac sale last year and am planning another. It was very popular. I don't think a clutter sale would work as well.
I was able to donate over £100 to charity.

ViceVersa Sun 26-Jul-26 09:23:10

SpinDriftCoastal

High school. We have secondary schools.

Our 'secondary schools' are all high schools round here!

Tenko Sun 26-Jul-26 09:16:01

Fur babies and rainbow bridge , just no!!!
Guys , used by waiters in restaurants, also no. And when British people say caps instead of crowns , as in their teeth.

Tenko Sun 26-Jul-26 09:07:08

Retread

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

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

I volunteer in a charity shop and the bric a brac made me laugh . We have a large corner full of bric a brac. Maybe we should change to it to clutter🤔

NotSpaghetti Sun 26-Jul-26 09:06:05

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"!

Retread Sun 26-Jul-26 08:54:23

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

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

Grammaretto Sun 26-Jul-26 08:39:05

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.

NanKate Sun 26-Jul-26 08:07:06

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. 😏

winterwhite Sat 25-Jul-26 19:33:35

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.

valdali Sat 25-Jul-26 19:12:59

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...

MissAdventure Sat 25-Jul-26 16:46:32

A pop of colour.

Plevey08 Sat 25-Jul-26 16:01:45

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

BoggledMind Sat 25-Jul-26 15:59:24

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.

MissAdventure Sat 25-Jul-26 15:42:34

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

Chestnut Sat 25-Jul-26 15:36:27

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.

BoggledMind Sat 25-Jul-26 14:56:27

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.

BoggledMind Sat 25-Jul-26 14:48:24

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.

dalrymple23 Sat 25-Jul-26 14:39:13

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!

Crumbly159 Sat 25-Jul-26 14:31:51

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

Sets my teeth on edge.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sat 25-Jul-26 13:48:50

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.

grumppa Sat 25-Jul-26 13:42:18

All of the above.

joannapiano Sat 25-Jul-26 13:31:49

Thank you ViceVersa !

ViceVersa Sat 25-Jul-26 13:09:02

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.

spottybook Sat 25-Jul-26 13:00:19

Gotten

Like

Listen up

Upcoming (instead of forthcoming)

Astitchintime Sat 25-Jul-26 12:52:02

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!