words that make you grit your teeth

[Aggie_Ama]

I don't mind being called Mrs. Amanda XXX. I don't mind getting things addressed to Mrs. C. XXX. I actually do not like being called Ms. It is Mrs. for me.

I changed my last name but to hold onto my maiden name I got rid of my middle name (hated it anyway) and now my maiden name is legally my middle name. I like it and I like being a Mrs.

My husband and I are team and I feel like having the same last name is a way of being a team. Others do not and that is okay with me. I rarely miss my maiden name, probably just a couple times in 5 years since I ditched it. I still am very proud to be a member of my family and proud of their name.

When people call me Miss Amanda I want to slap them though. That is only for little bitty kids and the sweet old lady (76) who worked for me at Lowe's. We called her Miss Jenny.

[Flur]

I also took my husband's name, but I kept my middle name. My university, however, refuses to accept this and continues to send mail to Keri (maiden name) (last name). How many times do I have to tell them that's not my name?!?!

[ilima]

Along the lines of "Miss Amanda" one of my pet peeves are folks that go by Dr. Firstname, like Dr. Phil.

I find it a strange mix of pseudo-familiarity and also wanting to maintain a position of superiority. One or the other, please: Dr. Lastname OR Firstname only.

[LBTC]

"compedness"?

Yeah, it took me several televised races before I figured out he was referring to competitiveness.


H&B
~T~

[Aggie_Ama]

Along the lines of "Miss Amanda" one of my pet peeves are folks that go by Dr. Firstname, like Dr. Phil.

I find it a strange mix of pseudo-familiarity and also wanting to maintain a position of superiority. One or the other, please: Dr. Lastname OR Firstname only.

My college roommate is a second year resident, I call her Dr. Barb. I do not think she introduces herself to patients that way it is just us.

[Zen]

I always thought Miss (insert first name here) was a southern thing.
I use it with people I know.

[milkbone]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

I remember when my younger daughter (now 27) went through her teenage "whatEVER" stage for a about a year or so. Used to drive me insane but I figured she could be saying worse. She eventually grew out of it and is now a delightful young woman.

[Kimmyt]

Oooh, the last name thing got me.

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

Hate it to the point where I will ask the woman in question when she changed her name to John.

I do not understand why, if a woman so chooses to take her husband's name, she then is referred to by his first name. Isn't his last name enough? She can't even keep that bit of her own identity??

[tc1]

This has cropped up at work, because we historically refer to training days as orientation days. So people will speak of being orientated to something.

Something even worse is a pseudo-technical term, "kicked in". Arrg! What does that mean? Usually referred to something starting. Picked up is a technical term that is OK.

Or, "hike" for any kind of rate or price increase.

Or, the trend of computer speak to use hard-hitting action verbs to refer to something that is really only happening at the software level- fragged, crashed, etc.

Nucular for nuclear makes sense to me, it seems a regional thing -much easier to say. Greezy for greasy drives me round the bend.

I could go on, but I better stop.

[OakLeaf]

When people call me Miss Amanda I want to slap them though.

I had a few older, male clients who called me Miss Susan. I thought it was rather endearing, actually

[kelownagirl]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

That's exactly what it's supposed to convey.

I remember bugging my teenaged daughters a few years back that I was going to shorten whatever to 'tev and start a new thing. I kept using it and trying to get them to pick it up. They still laugh about it today and we still say 'tev as a joke.

[TsPoet]

Oooh, the last name thing got me.

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

Hate it to the point where I will ask the woman in question when she changed

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

[ilima]

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

My dissertation advisor & her husband both graduated from Wisconsin. She said the alumni mail sent to her husband is addressed as Dr. while hers is Mrs. She laughed about it, but she was a bit chuffed about it, too.

Karla's hubby or the other person should have taken the opportunity to refer to her as Dr. So-and-so.

[Aggie_Ama]

I always thought Miss (insert first name here) was a southern thing.
I use it with people I know.

It probably is souther just like honey, darlin, dear, sweetie are accepted from complete strangers. I think why it bugs me is several of my last supervisors did it and it feels more condescending. Yes they are my bosses but it makes me feel very inferior because they say it like I am a little kid.

I don't hate being called Miss Amanda as much as I hate when people call me Manda, Manders or Mandy. The only thing short for Amanda I ever go by is Ama.