The "hated words" thread

[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?

[five one]

A good friend of mine thinks you go to kinnygarden before first grade. She also carves a punkin for Halloween.

Many people use then instead of than, as in I'd rather ride my bike then anything else in the world.

I hate the words paradigm and networking. Actually I hate any business related buzz words.

[SadieKate]

To me, punkin is a form of endearment or just a play on a word. For instance, our family uses oderarm-de-underant and irrigirates the fields.

I'm reading Barbara Kingsolver's new book and she talks about the words that families generate and perpetuate. A young child in the family mangled the name of those big pink water birds and they forever became "flingmos."

[salsabike]

Right, like the book title "A Monk Swimming". And some of these, like "whole nuther" are meant to be sloppy slang/fun.

I have a friend, much beloved, who cannot learn how to say "ostensibly". She says "ostenshishly". What the heck. She's still a great person.

[Veronica]

You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.

V.

[salsabike]

Shoot, I don't usually even TRY that one.

However, maybe you all will be amused to know that, with a former Navy sub captain for a father in law, I still seem to have trouble saying "Admiral" when I intend to, and have several times called my father in law's good friend "Admirable Long". And I'm sure he is.

You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.

V.

[SadieKate]

You're making it too complicated. Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.

[slinkedog]

Oh, and if I hear our president say, "noocyeelur" instead of "nuclear," one more time, I may tear hairs out of my head. And not just the grey ones, mind you.

[Python]

You're making it too complicated. Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.

It's pronounced

Woostershire sauce depending on where in England you come from. Some pronouce it Worseter sauce.

Playing on family words one of my cousins when she was little would call an umbrella a "Humbee-eddy".

I had a habit of calling my elder brother (6 years older than me - and the one who's hopefully donating a kidney to my son) a "Higoramus" instead of an "Ignoramus"