Words or phrases you hate.
 

Apart from the most vulgar of profanities what are the words or phrases that really irritate you?

I have several but I'll start off with 'hubby' I know its perfectly harmless and innocent but just reading the word makes me cringe.

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:rofl: agreed.

Gobsmacked

Gutted

Haitch

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Math

Obligated

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Burglarize..... Incentivise.... I mean, come on!

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By not liking haitch you are actually displaying religious prejudice. Only Catholics pronounce it that way.

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"free"

especially when used to describe:

• healthcare
• broadband
• mobile phone
• petrol
• insurance
• utilities
• lunch

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Cutey Batootie..

(Pronounced CueTee -Bat tooty or something similar)

My mother in law started it when the kids were small, and my wife uses it 14 years later in reference to me. Makes me want to start up the chain saw and destroy things.

I'm good. (even though I use it all the time)

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Entitled
Birthright

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"needy"
Just read a book where someone was "needy" on almost every page.

(I know many non Catholics who pronounce "haitch")

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I don't suppose it's cut and dried.

I was brought up Cof E but sent to a Catholic school at the age of 10 where I was amazed to encountered it for the first time.

I didn't realise the Catholic connection until quite recently where I was told by some Northern Irish friends that it is one of the many ways to tell a Catholic from a Protestant.

I used to hate it but now I know the connotations I find it quite amusing.

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Absolutely
Loo
Devastated
Enjoy, as when the waitress says "enjoy". Language constantly changes, but I'm afraid I've always been used to 'enjoy' being a transitive verb, which means it needs an object, such as 'enjoy it'. 'Fraid I cannot easily change!!

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So

Used a lot by people on TV being interviewed. Often they say SO when starting a conversation - as though they're in the middle of it.

The same people often phrase a reply that starts with a question.

It seems to be the new, modern, hip way of speaking.

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'Good Good' irritates me as well.

Cutey Batootie would lead to murder.

'Good skills' is another.


And as Fred said 'Math'. It sounds completely alien to my British ears.

Do the math aaarrrgggghhh

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People who start sentences with.

Well, its kinda like yer know sorta...

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"in the World"