Words you hate :(

[Mithrea]

When I was in college, we kept a list on the refrigerator of all the words we hate (for any reason -- but especially the ones that make you really *cringe* when you hear them). What would you put on the list?


Here are a few from my list:

Autumn
foyer
tragical
cult
feet
missy
barbeque

[Myst]

Anything derogatory against someone's race, sexual orientation, or gender.

[Radocs]

"Volkswagon"

[cherrywind]

"Gradded" instead of graduated. As in "I gradded grade 12".
Addicting instead of addictive. As in "gum is very addicting".

I guess that's more grammer than the actual word, but I just cannot stand those two things. And I hate the phrase "years young". In my books, you're only however many years young if you're actually getting younger with each passing year.

[Élistariel]

treasure
supper

[Myst]

irregardless

[Flar's Freyja]

In this area, people will post ads with items "For Sell" instead of "For Sale"

Definitely makes me want to :scream:

[SimplyStrange]

It's not the word, it's the pronunciation of the word...

When people say "Nucular" instead of "Nuclear"

Or when people say "Supposubly" instead of "Supposedly"

There's also the word Carribean, 'cause no one knows how to say it. :ugh:

[SimplyStrange]

I just thought of two more:

Ugly

and

Fat

I don't like these words... because everyone and their body is a work of art...and it bothers me when people disregard that. :(

[Sequoia]

"rag head"

racial slurs in general.


crude terms for sexual acts. "f*ck" "eat her out" etc

people using "love" when they don't mean it. I HATE hearing love if it's not meant. . .

"Beth Adams" because after a certain point in my life, my own name became an insult or thing to be feared, hearing it coming from stranger's mouths.

supercalifragalisticexpialidocious - because it is NOT the longest freakin word!! Flockeynockeynahilapilaphication is. . . I don't know if I spelled it right. . . it's in this huge diciontary somewhere. . . and it basically means "everything means nothing." But it is a real word!!!

I do not know. LOL :D

[Cait]

crude terms for sexual acts. "f*ck" "eat her out" etc

I have no real problem with "f*ck", but "eat her out"? Ick. Ick. Ick.

Hm, what else... For no real reason, I hate the word "teen". I'm perfectly okay with "teenager", but "teen" just makes me cringe. I have no idea why... Actually, come to think of it, I really dislike the word "adolescence" too. I think it sounds like a disease, or something.

[Phoenix Blue]

**Grins** Creative use of the word, "dessert," should get you around that particular problem. :bigredgri

Anyway, my pet-peeve word is "can't." Some people use this after they've tried something. . . and that's okay. Others use it before they've tried, and that isn't okay. You don't know you can't do something until you've tried to do it, I figure--barring something ridiculously close to impossible, like flapping your arms to fly.

Dictionary.com didn't come up with anything for "Flockeynockeynahilapilaphication". . . **blinks** I had thought "disestablishmentarianism" was the longest English word, besides? :)

[TornadoAli]

I hate the word "blather"
Don't ever tell me I'm blathering!!! :-P

Also, like Puma Hime said, I hate it when strangers say my name. Or even when friends say my whole name, that drives me nuts for some reason...

I'm a wierdo LOL

[Twilight Garden]

I hate when people use the word "then" when they really mean "than". Ex: The cat was bigger "then" the dog. I don't know why this bothers me.

The word that makes me cringe most would have to be "crotch". Ex: Her short skirt went all the way up to her "crotch". I'm all for profanity, but for some reason that word hits a nerve with me.

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by SimplyStrange
It's not the word, it's the pronunciation of the word...

When people say "Nucular" instead of "Nuclear"


That's one of mine, too.......for instance, "Bronical" instead of "Bronchial"

"Broad" in reference to a woman. Where the hell did that one come from?

[*~*Chary*~*]

i hate any rude term for the female sexual organ for example C*nt, and i really really hate tw*t

i also hate anything racially offending

as well as these few:

SNOG
Young Lady - so patronising
and when people use mental instead of kool lmao

[Melysande]

http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/ has lots of obscure words. Even this one, which is a new word I'm adding to my personal Words I Hate list:

Fussock~ n. Big, fat woman.



Other words on my list are:

Kewl
Aight
Wuzzup
Productize
OEM, when it's used as a verb rather than as an acronym
Leverage, when it's used as anything other than a noun
F***, when it's used to actually decribe the sexual act. (When used as an expression in anger, I have fewer problems with it.)
C***, Pr***, P*ssy, Tw**, and all of the other assorted vulgar words for male and female sexual body parts.
Actually, calling them by silly names irritates the hell out of me, too, but at least it's better than these other tasteless words.

"Can't" when non-British people say it as "cahn't". If you don't say "cahn", then don't say "cahn't."

[Melysande]

Yes, snog and snark are are two other words I really don't like, either.

**Grins**

[GoddessViviane]

I hate it when people misuse the word 'well' and 'good'
ex. How are you,today? "I'm well thankyou." or I'm fine thanks.
NOT -how re you today? - I'm good. -no- that means you feel good ABOUT yourself like you have done charity work. hahaha.
Well..those are the only ones I can think of right now.

[Melysande]

**Chuckles** Never ask me, or you'll be annoyed. :)

[Phoenix Blue]

Spake Melysande:
Yes, snog and snark are are two other words I really don't like, either.

**Grins**
Don't knock 'em till you try 'em! :bigredgri

[shnen]

I hate the word merge.... just cuz its a dumb word...

and on store signs where it says... Please call again... I didn't call... I was here, in person.

[Melysande]

Feathers, I will never try them. I find the words themselves to be a distinct turn-off.

[materra]

Taxes
Rot, when not refering to decomposing.
Slut
stately when refering to a person and not a building
cutter when refering to a person
hack when refering to a person
'cuz instead of because

...and these combination of words:
"how ya doing"
"hot enough for ya"
"no thanks to you"
"you people"

AND "thank you for holding, your call is very important to us...someone will be with you shortly..."

[Artemis84]

Definetly the word "schedule." It really bothers me when people pronounce it as "shedule."

"Awesome" too. I'm on the swim team at my school and after the meets we have a "de-briefing." Everything is always,"Awesome job out there guys!" "You guys are just sooo awesome!"

Soooo - that many o's is just sick and wrong.

[Mithrea]

Originally posted by materra
...and these combination of words:
"how ya doing"
"hot enough for ya"
"no thanks to you"
"you people"


Here there are alot of people that say "djeet" all the time. I'll give you a moment to figure out what that means . . .

[Melysande]

Ate already, but thanks for asking. :)

[shnen]

Originally posted by Artemis84
Definetly the word "schedule." It really bothers me when people pronounce it as "shedule."


same with mature... GRRRRRRR.....

[Twilight Garden]

Here's one more that is commonly used that I can't stand. "baby" or "babe" When it's used in reference to a significant other instead of an infant. I just don't like it. It annoys me. Luckily, I've never had a SO call me that.

[MistOfTheSea86]

I agree with SS on most of my peeves. But as for the rest of them, since I go to rocky, I am going to be hearing it for a while so none of it really phases me.


Except when people ALWAYS say "Y'know what I'm sayin?" Or "like?" and I still do the like thing, I am trying to break that habit lol.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Number 1 pet peeve:

AoL speak (no offense to anyone that uses it) :blushake: Eugh....

Other than that:

F*ck - I used to have no problem with it, but somehow along the way it I got real sensitive to it, now I cringe everytime I see/hear it used. :rolleyes:


episode
look - ever heard a word so many times it doesn't make sense?
"liberry" (library)

And of course..... :shaker: my name

[Altheia]

stroppy, obstropolus (sp?) my ex-boyfriend used to tell me that I was being stroppy (b**chy) and ever since then, I have hated that word.

[Djiril]

The phrase "politically correct", as in "I'm tired of being politically correct."
I can understand the attitude of wanting to express yourself, even if it offends people, but the way I hear that sentance used most of the time, the person usually appears to mean that they are tired of treating people who are different from them with respect.

[Haedis]

i agree with Mist, I hate it when people use the word "like" needlessly: "hey like I was thinking that we could like um like go to the movies or like hang out at his house, like because his mom like isnt like home, dude."

and i totally agree with Flaire about the AoL speak.

non-inflammable

concilliatory

"extenuating circumstances" because some kid at my school had a really bad lisp and they made him do announcements and he had to say these words a few times everyday for like two months. It really got on my nerves (which is rather mean of me to say). but everytime i hear it now I cringe.

buddy, pal or anything like that

fag and dyke (nothing pisses me off more)

when my friend says "the 'rents" rather than "my parents" (waves to friend)

Jungian (i know there are times when use of this word is warranted but it seems to be used for no reason quite often and i hear it way too much)

defrocked (i hate it because i laugh uncontrollably for about 5 mins after hearing it. it never fails)

tragedy (its a word that to me has lost all meaning. i almost always get a feeling of insincerity from it)

[Myst]

"Pinker 1994:129. He takes the Guiness record holder for 'longest word in English', floccinauchinihilipilification (which apparently the Oxford English Dictionary defines as 'the categorizing of something as worthless or trivial')"


http://www.ling.umd.edu/Courses/Ling819/Papers/what.html

[Old Witch]

Well. The word well, because I've gotten into the habit of starting all my posts with it and it's a hard habit to break.......I'm driving myself nuts!!!

[pixierelish]

- The words c*nt and tw*t.
- Being called Babes, sweetheart and chick.
- I hate the word 'though', because I always seem to be saying it.
- I also hate the 'like thing'. I do it myself and I still hate it!
- Spaz and Spacker. Don't like them either. Don't know why! :D

[Twilight Garden]

Originally posted by Old Witch
Well. The word well, because I've gotten into the habit of starting all my posts with it and it's a hard habit to break.......I'm driving myself nuts!!! I do that in my deadjournal, too. I drive myself crazy with it. I noticed it a while ago and am now really conscious of whether I'm doing it or not. :)

[MoonSpirit]

My all-time most-hated word is mischevious, instead of mischievous. I hate it when people say it wrong, and here in Ga, it happens almost everytime someone says it. Also, when people say anywho, instead of anyhow or anyway. That happens mostly online, but has happened once or twice in mundania.

[flar7]

I have noticed that some of you disagree with the way a word is
pronounced and not the word itself. You also seem to agree to
disagree with the erroneous spellings of some words.

I am only bothered by the conjunction of two words. I shouldnt
be as I dont say it, but it makes me cringe. Any other word
spoken are relevant to when and how they are used. So, I have
no real problems with them.

In fact, I find a lot of them kewl.;)

[CoolJ]

I hate ... i hate.....

I HATE NET SPEAK! ARGH!!!

i just mean.. things like "kewl" instead of cool... and "j00" instead of you......etc... i just mean.................... what the hell!?!? ;)

i also hate slang terms for parts of the anatomy or sex...

male or female.... i remember hearing a kid going on and on and on using slang terms to describe sexual things.....first of all.. He's A KID!!!!!... ok.. so i felt like smacking him... lol ..... i was limited by the hundreds of miles data can travel but my hands can't ;)

right...well it's really that ... "l337" language ...I believe it's called..... that makes me want to kill some1... ;)

i hate rude language.....

i don't know.. i just find offensive language............ offensive...

sure I joke about it sometimes..... but really after a while it drives me insane when ppl use ... street slang.....or whatever it's called...

" yo yo dog, we gonna go hang out with my posse... "

oh yeah.....

i have the habit of saying "well..." , "like" , or "by the way" before each sentence ;)

well alright now really...

ah ok did it again!!! ..

now then ... this is a long post ain't it!!!

i ... and now I hate that word that i just saw here on the thread somewhere.... omg who invented that word!?!? THEY SHOULD DIE A PAINFUL DEATH!!!

what else do I hate... I hate referring to a lover as something other than just that...

if I wish to great the love of my life by something other than her name.... i simply say "oh goddess..."

[ChelleOfShadows]

so many of my least favorite words have been mentioned in the course of this thread. A few that were missed;

snatch, not as in I will snatch her baldheaded but as a reference to a female's sex.......

hoe - as in a woman who has sex for a living. A HOE is a gardening tool.....

s******ing - I had a college prof who used to complain of students laughing and would shout stop your idiotic s******ing.....

withdraweral - as in I want too make a withdraweral from my account..... please if you cannot say withdrawal just say I want to take some funds from my account.......

perscribe.... as in Dr, I have the flu would you perscribe me something.... grrrrrrr

combinations of words;

can I go with? What? If you don't know where I am going then how do you know you want to go??

Can you carry me to the store? Hell no you're heavy! Wouldn't it be easier if I gave you a ride in my car????

If it wouldn't be too much trouble..... Well you know it's trouble when that is the start of the sentence...... I walk away.

Just my 2 cents from the peanut gallery!

[Sequoia]

Originally posted by Myst
"Pinker 1994:129. He takes the Guiness record holder for 'longest word in English', floccinauchinihilipilification (which apparently the Oxford English Dictionary defines as 'the categorizing of something as worthless or trivial')"


http://www.ling.umd.edu/Courses/Ling819/Papers/what.html


:D thanks, Myst. . . . my spelling is horrendous! (isn't it?)

[SpikesPet5150]

I hate it when people say "Conversate." Thats not a word. It's CONVERSE. Conversate is made up, and it sounds stupid to boot. I hate daytime tv.

And I hate it when people say, "ya know what I'm sayin'" after every single sentence. If I did not know what you were saying, I would ask.

I'm guilty of being a lazy typer when I type to my friends.. but I've seen from pretty horrific errors on my friends resume's and cover letters. Using Ppl instead of people, stuff like that. If you're typing to a friend, then I think it's fine. But if you're typing something that you are planning to send to a professional person, use a spell checker.

Also, the whole your; you're thing. It's not that hard. Or the there; their thing.

I remember I got one of those "Getting to know you" questionairre emails from an old friend. And the question was, "What is your least favorite subject in school." and she said, (and this is a direct quote) "English. I don't see why I have to go to skool to lern a language I gru up speeking. I can speek english just fine." Hookt on fonicks rillee werkt fer her.

Sorry to seem bitchy, but I just get so mad when I see people making simple mistakes. Typing is one thing, because there's always the chance that it's a typo, and not blatant stupidity, but when you actually speak with people, and they sound stupid, it ruins the entire conversation.
~Bree

[Witchy Cowgirl]

Originally posted by Myst
irregardless

Irregardless is the first word that popped up on my list!
Followed by many others that have already been mentioned.
Also for some reason, evidently (and yeah, I probably spelled it wrong!)

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by Witchy Cowgirl


Irregardless is the first word that popped up on my list!
Followed by many others that have already been mentioned.
Also for some reason, evidently (and yeah, I probably spelled it wrong!)

:lol: An ex-boyfriend was fond of saying "Evidently" and he really wasn't intelligent enough to attempt using big words......:rolleyes:

BTW, I believe you did spell it correctly.......and is irregardless even a word:huh:

[Myst]

No it's not. That's the point. :D

[Élistariel]

mature, when people pronounce it mah-toor. I don't know the correct pronounciation. I say ma-ture, as in ma-sure.(I know masure isn't a word)
Hey ya'll I'm gonna take you on mah tour. See? my tour, mah-toor, whatever.

[*~*Chary*~*]

could be wrong but i believe it is pronounced

Machoor

[Haedis]

yeah thats how i say it too, chary

[Danustouch]

"Supposedly". Why? Because so many people say it incorrectly.

I think i've known at least four people who cannot say it correctly. Instead, they say "SupposANTly" which grates on my nerves more than words can describe.

Another one, is "Symbology". I'm not even sure if that is a word. I know SYMBOLISM is. And I LOVE the word Symbolism. But my husband has a really annoying habit of saying "Symbology" where I believe he should say "Symbolism".

Example "I loved the symbology in that movie". Blech!

[Lavender]

My peeve is anything baby talk. Especially "me"...as in "me want a cookie" or "me want to go home". It makes me want to scream...the word is "I", not "me"!!!!

[Rævyn Cigány]

Used in the context it's normally used around me...

"WHATEVER..."

Makes me wanna :scream:

B*B

Rae )O(

[flar7]

time out. OT

just gotta say raevyn cigany,

I love your sig! :boing:

[Twig]

THe human language is rife with words. And thats ALL they are is words. Although words have POWER ;) it is the person that is hearing them that has the problem with them Not the words themselves.

So go ahead and call me a !@#% (*^%$# $%^ (*&^%. They are only words and sticks and stones.......:razz:

Peace
Twig
:elf:

[Myst]

Originally posted by Wildchild
My peeve is anything baby talk. Especially "me"...as in "me want a cookie" or "me want to go home". It makes me want to scream...the word is "I", not "me"!!!!

I agree. Can't people speak proper english during a serious discussion..?

[Mithrea]

Originally posted by Twig
THe human language is rife with words. And thats ALL they are is words. Although words have POWER ;) it is the person that is hearing them that has the problem with them Not the words themselves.

So go ahead and call me a !@#% (*^%$# $%^ (*&^%. They are only words and sticks and stones.......:razz:

Peace
Twig
:elf:

Juuuust keep telling yourself that Twig :rolleyes: ;)

[Twig]

Originally posted by Mithrea


Juuuust keep telling yourself that Twig :rolleyes: ;)

???????

Me not understand! :evilway:

[SimplyStrange]

It irks me when people speak in the third person... and are SERIOUS. Ok, I can take baby talk and speaking in the third person when it's all for fun and jokes... but when the person is serious, it's like *slaps forehead*

Another thing that annoys me is when people say b*tch... I don't mind if it it's used as in "someone's being a ..." and definately don't mind if it's used in its proper term... but it's when someone uses it instead of the word "girl" or "chick" or something like that. For instance "Yeah, these b*tches that we saw! They were some FINE b*tches!"

I also get annoyed with internet slang... it annoys me, simply because it all looks like a bunch of silly errors... I dunno, spelling just always came easy to me, so seeing people purposely spell things wrong just bothers me...

That and I hate any racial terms, or when people refer to someone by their race... we all know what the insulting words are. It's basically because at my school, caucasions are the minority, and being one of the only TWO caucasion girls in my P.E. class this year, I was "affectionately" called "Wetta" which basically means "White Girl" and it was allowed to happen... despite the fact that all the teachers know what it means... they just didn't care...

[Amemphis]

I hate the following words
ugly terms for anatomy
boobs
breastseses or whatever
c*nt
I really hate tw*t
c*ck--come on people,it is Not a chicken.
sn*tch
pepe
titty

I also hate certain slang like
hoochies
b*tches when its just a reference to a girl whos not acting like one
wuz-wuz there wuzzup
ya

also I dislike
emaciated or however its spelled.

[shnen]

I hate the word nice.


have a nice day.. not a good one, not a bad one, but a nice one...

or... shes so nice.... NOOO!!!! :scream: how about shes wonderful, smart, beautiful...

its a lazy lazy word....

[Altheia]

yes...agreed...nice is not a nice word...hmmm

I hate the word obstropolous
my ex used to tell me i was being stroppy (a "nice" word for hey, you're being b**chy)
I hated it when he would use larger words to disguise/doctor up what he was really telling me.

[Wicce]

I hate racial or homophobic slurs, like ******, fag or dyke.

I hate the word fat.

And for no reason other than it sounds icky, I hate the word moist. :)

[Flaire-FireStar]

"din din" in referring to dinner. :rolleyes:

[Vildvittra]

I don't like when people write wierd instead of weird.
Why do they do that?

Furthermore I don't like it when people (e.g. my English professor) uses the expression 'as it where' all the time.
One of my friend counted the times she used it and she used it 150 times during the course of 10 seminars.

Vildvittra

[mol]

I have no problem with the words below, when used alone...but together:

Can
you
fix
my
computer


Ugh.

[mol]

Originally posted by Freyja

BTW, I believe you did spell it correctly.......and is irregardless even a word:huh:

Nope. (Of course, nope probably isn't either)

ir·re·gard·less (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard

Regardless.



[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]

Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is
used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

[mol]

Originally posted by pixierelish

- Being called Babes, sweetheart and chick.


Heh. Funny thing, my Mother is the reason I refer to people as 'sweetheart'.

Which I do...often.

So, if I call you that, blame Mom.

[mol]

Originally posted by CoolJ
I hate ... i hate.....

I HATE NET SPEAK! ARGH!!!

i just mean.. things like "kewl" instead of cool... and "j00" instead of you......etc... i just mean.................... what the hell!?!? ;)

<snip>

right...well it's really that ... "l337" language ...I believe it's called..... that makes me want to kill some1... ;)


:p

You dont even know what real 'net' speak is...

Back in the day I belonged to a BBS society that spoke in Hex. I wouldn't call what you are talking about 'Net' speak. I'd call it '1337' speak.

[Armitage]

I hate when people say the word 'jawn' for something. And 'ignant' instead of 'ignorant'. AND referring to someone as your 'boo'. What does that mean??