If there's one word I hate....

[swee'pea99]

...it's 'unsubscribe'. Implying, as it does, that I would ever in a million years have subscribed to receive your crappy brain-dead spam about your crappy worthless product or service, you third-rate bottom feeder.

And breathe...

 

[Scoosh]

Oh absol ...... err yeah - you are quite right, Rocky .....

 

[tadpole]

The word I literally hate with a passion bordering on literal hatred, is literally.
As In “I literally died of shock” or “I literally laughed my head off”
No you didn’t

 

[slowwww]

2 words really wind me up. 'Like', as in "...and I'm like so disappointed that I have no grasp of the English language" and 'basically' as in "...and basically I'm a numpty but by putting basically in the sentence every 10 or so words I'm inferring you're too stupid to understand the full-strength version of what I'm saying and so i'm going to patronise you instead, basically".

 

[Alex H]

"To die for........."

 

[GBC]

'So', particularly so when used to start a conversation, or thread. Where in God's name does it come from.

 

[Tribanite]

well basically i hate the word basically, because when people use it, they say things like "well basically what happened is xyz", and they then proceed to basically give me a detailed explanation on xyz, incorporating letters A-W along the way ............... basically!!!

 

[Beebo]

People ending sentences with "at all".

 

[snorri]

I notice 'Legacy', when used to mean longer term benefits for the nation, eg Olympic ....... is being attached to all sorts of projects in order to make them easier to bear.
The word gets me down a bit when it is obvious I will not benefit at all..

Edited to add "at all" to my post

 

[David Haworth]

It annoys me when I hear people use the words "male" and "female" as nouns. It just sounds completely wrong to my ears.

 

[Scoosh]

So basically, what we are like literally saying is that the legacy to die for of this aardvark thread is absolutely unlikely to unsubscribe at all.



10 people now hate me ....

 

[PaulB]

I hate the word 'absolutely' which seems to have become incredibly ubiquitous these days

AbsoLUTEly.

That's what people say when they can't think of anything else to reply to something you've just said. Like when we say (and let's face facts, we've ALL said this) 'We should nuke Belgium and bomb it back to the stone age!' we hear a veritable chorus from all those in the immediate vicinity, 'AbsoLUTEly!!!'

 

[Maz]

'Synergy'.

 

[ColinJ]

The word I literally hate with a passion bordering on literal hatred, is literally.
As In “I literally died of shock” or “I literally laughed my head off”
No you didn’t

Unless you were talking to a ghost!

 

[EltonFrog]

I agree with all the above, hate them all. A phrase you done hear so much now, but used to be very fashionable was "can't be bad" . Gawd that used to make my teeth itch.

My current pet hates are the phrases " up for grabs" often used by unimaginative radio presenters and the words " for free" that really gets my dander up.