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What are your annoying words?

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I have a few that I don't like to hear or say for various reasons. Possibly because they're linked to people I no longer speak to, or I hear them in a funny accent that grates on me. Here's my list of the ones I can remember.

  • Brunch - especially if the person can't pwonounce their r's pwoperly.
  • Bric a brac - Similar reason above
  • Crockery - It's just annoying
  • Pamphlet - It's a leaflet!!!!
  • Napkins - or any other insipid cutesified word that finishes with 'kins'.
  • Ointment - Sorry CatWoman. You're the inspiration for this thread, although this one is only mildly annoying and it reminds me of Patsy Byrne in Blackadder 2. Rofl

I can't think of any others right now but I'm sure some of you will be able to trigger them. What are yours?

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  • 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.

  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    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.

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  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    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.

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