What are your annoying words?

Just remembered another one, "pinky promise".

A promise is already an agreement not break your word. There's shouldn't be levels to determine how willing/likely you are to keep it. If someone "pinky promises", that suggests to me that I shouldn't trust them when they "just" make a promise.

I remember Fern Brady intensely disliking "brekkie" for "breakfast". I love Fern, and want to petition her to allow Scousers off the hook with that one, because it is just what we say and it's not an affectation.

I dislike "hubby" too.

The dislikes for me aren't so much words, but how they are used.

My top one is "mum" used by people who are not their offspring. My mum was in a nursing home at the end of her days, and the manager would call her "mum" to me in that slightly patronising fashion. "After we've fed mum" etc. It also probably meant that she didn't need to remember names.

Another two:

Earworm

Ickle

With that guy I was never put on in the first place.

Agree. Instant put off

I always thought a pamphlet was a small pamph! Maybe it was a like a small leaf (leaflet)!

This may have roots from other languages.

https://www.frenchlearner.com/grammar/reflexive-verbs/

Doesn't make the words any more useful, but is a potential explanation.

Also a slightly related map men episode about other languages influencing UK place names:

https://youtu.be/uYNzqgU7na4

I dislike it when people who want something usually start the message saying “hope your okay”

I always think why don’t you leave out the insincere part and get straight to it 

That’s funny  

OMG

I hate it when people say stuff in texts,

"How's you" 

"Hows U"

How R U

 "What R U Up 2"

I just thought of another one. 

Gooey!

It gives me the creeps, and there's a reason. I once knew someone who had a bit of a crush on me and it wasn't reciprocated. I'm a queer man (bi/pan) but he really wasn't my type at all. His idea of connection was through entrapment and manipulation so I gave him a very wide berth when I found out.

Anyway, apparently one time when I was driving around I'd accidentally cut him off by pulling out of a junction. I had no idea this had happened, but he messaged me shortly after to tell me about it, and that he'd initially felt anger, but when he realised it was me he'd "gone all gooey".

Yuk! I felt like I needed a shower. 

I don't have any in general, but words I hear a lot can become annoying. A couple of words employed incessantly by the adolescent community at the moment - 'Humbling' and 'Queen' 

Grrr. 

At least it's not 'Bro' 

Worse. 

Ah well, language evolves I guess. 

There had to be one.

I hear you brother :) sorry could not resist that one....

Not as weird as the face itself is. 

My partner hates it when people say "she herself said...", or "I myself did.."

Why? Why not just she, him, they or I? Why the need to put herself, himself, themselves, or myself after it before just getting on with the damn sentence?

I don't like bruh, but I also don't like bro or brother. It feels false and forced, especially in the white community for some reason. It feels like it has toxic manosphere vibes and that makes me avoid men who call each other that.

Unfortunately it seems to be something that many men are adopting, especially online, in men's forums or in gym culture.Its not for me.

Bruh, hubby and wifey I dislike and never use those words. It makes my body feel like it’s going to explode when I hear others say it as well. I also don’t like the word babe.