The "hated words" thread

[bmccasland]

Pet peeve - when some one starts with - Can I ask you a question?
Isn't that a question? What if I say "No"? Why don't you just ask the question????

And local vernicular - instead of Ask, it's AX. "Let me ax you a question." This mispronnouncation is out of the mouths of well educated people too. Although I have to admit they received all their education in Orleans Parish, which has the full range from failing public schools to very well respected Universities.

I have an ax in my garage, I've used it to chop firewood.

Synergy. A project has synergy with another one. The project synergizes...
EXSQUEEZE me?

[snapdragen]

More from people is work with, mammyogram instead of mammogram.

We have a form used to followup MediCal claims, called a Claims Information Form or CIF. One woman calls it a sniff (the same one that is constantly turning around...)

[sgtiger]

Hilacious. I'm not sure if I hate this word for itself or because my friend's obnoxious ex used it all the time and the word became associated with him.

Also, I hate these lead-in phrases and any variation of:

It's none of my business, but...
I shouldn't be saying this...
I'm not racist or anything, but...
I know this will sound racist...

I don't know why people think by saying these types of phrases that they're are excused from what comes out of their mouths after.

[uforgot]

George Carlin would approve of this thread.

[eclectic]

Great Thread and Responses

Realator instead of realtor
liberry instead of library
que-pon instead of coupon

"Yelled" as in a student speaking to the principal "Then Mrs A really yelled at me . . ."
No I did not yell at them I spoke sternly in a low tone of voice.
Anytime anything is said as a reprimand we "yelled" at them.

One day I DID yell at them then calmly said "now you know what yelling is"

Gay as in "that is sooooo gay"

retard as in "I/you are such a retard" or "that is just retarded"

AND I am totally w/ the person who said the one about:
"can I ask you a question?"
First of all it is "MAY I ask you a question and NO you CAN'T!" (there that is yelling :lol

hmmm I think totally used to drive me crazy and now I am using it

Whew good thing it is summer vacation

[East Hill]

"Yelled" as in a student speaking to the principal "Then Mrs A really yelled at me . . ."
No I did not yell at them I spoke sternly in a low tone of voice.
Anytime anything is said as a reprimand we "yelled" at them.

One day I DID yell at them then calmly said "now you know what yelling is"

I've had that happen far too often at work. My workplace is extremely noisy, and I have to give explicit instructions. Quite often I start off a sentence in a loud, but not 'yelling' voice. Halfway through the instructions the noise stops (I work at an airport) and I find that I am now 'yelling'. It's difficult to explain to new people that I am NOT 'yelling', but then I bellow at them and announce, "Now, THAT is 'yelling'.

My 'hated' word: 'Fer' = 'for'



East Hill

[Voodoo Sally]

Oh yeah, "realAtor" is a classic.

"JewLEry" is another one like that.

[RolliePollie]

Oh my, this is the perfect thread for me! I'm certainly not perfect when it comes to grammar, but some of the things you hear coming out of people's mouths just drive me crazy!!!

A friend of mine mispronounces several words and it makes me cringe! She says simular instead of similar, coont instead of couldn't, and warsh instead of wash. The worst is when she says Massachusetts. She mixes up the syllables and it comes out "Massatoosh*ts."

One that really gets me is Oldtimer's instead of Alzheimer's.

And one more (which I'm guilty of myself) is when people say "a whole nother" - since when can you split a word in two and stick another word in the middle? Oh, excuse me, I mean stick a whole nother word in the middle.

I also hate it when people write "alot" instead of "a lot."

Then there's orientated. Hate it! But if you Google it, you'll find it is actually a word, which makes me grumpy because I don't want it to be a word.

[Python]

My two most hated words:

Dentist - means expensive pain

Doctor

Both mean T-R-O-U-B-L-E

[LBTC]

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Then there's orientated. Hate it! But if you Google it, you'll find it is actually a word, which makes me grumpy because I don't want it to be a word.

Ain't that the truth?

[margo49]

I hate anything to do with how I "feel" or "caring" and "sharing"

I don't like the look (printed) or sound (spoken) of German
I have a knee-jerk "anti" to the sound of Yiddish, tho' I think it is a very rich and descriptive language; especially when the topic concerns people, relationships and things that have gone terribly wrong.

I hate these two words absolutely the most (having spent the past few days browsing my vocabulary before putting fingers to keyboard )

1. soul-mate

2. mentor

[margo49]

Also, I hate these lead-in phrases and any variation of:

It's none of my business, but...
I shouldn't be saying this...
I'm not racist or anything, but...
I know this will sound racist...

I don't know why people think by saying these types of phrases that they're are excused from what comes out of their mouths after.

Yeah, everything before the "but" is bullsh--