words that make you grit your teeth

[martinkap]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'! Please, be real women and call it as it is:

Menstrual periods or Menstruation

Martina

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'!

I admit that when I read "hoo-hah" it makes me laugh. I think it's rather endearing!

[SouthernBelle]

Conversate.

No. It's converse.

[Aggie_Ama]

ain't

My brother-in-law says ain't and it pisses me off. My own mother hates the word so much that if we refused to stop using it she spanked us. She came from a working class family that greatly valued education and she viewed it as ignorant.

The thing with my brother-in-law is he does it to be more "country". My husband refuses to use the word and hates when his brother does, he tells me his mom raised them much like mine. I also dread the day my little nieces start saying ain't to me.

[mimitabby]

and when my 40 year old niece corrects her 10 yr old daughter's English but can't get her own past participles right.

Ain't is not a word that I use, but it's very old English and IN the dictionary. My husband likes to use it for effect from time to time (yes, he's affected too ) . And one of my college educated grad student sons uses that word now too. Hopefully, again, just for effect.

[teawoman]

Aunt Flo

It drives me crazy when I see grown women talking here in various threads and they are not able properly identify one of the main functions of their body ... they are like little girls who are ashamed of grown up words and are hiding behind a 'cutesie name'! Please, be real women and call it as it is:

Menstrual periods or Menstruation

Martina

Guilty as charged. I used that expression once in a post. What's weird is that I hardly ever use it in real life.

My peeve: defiantly instead of definitely.