Words that annoy me for no particular reason.

[Pale Rider]

'Enjoy' when used as a single word exhortation to enjoy something.

'Floor' when the speaker means 'ground'.

'Carnage' when a large number of people have not been killed.

'Verdict' in reports of civil cases when there isn't one, there is a judgement.

'Strangle' when the victim has not died.

'Electrocution' for the same reason.

I'm tempted to repeat 'enjoy', because that it really is the worst one and makes we want to smack the user in the mouth.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Loo. What on earth is wrong with toilet?

Dunny maybe in OZ but never "bathroom"

 

[screenman]

More money than sense, always makes me think the person that uses those words is suffering green eyes monster effect.

 

[PeteXXX]

@Pale Rider Enjoy.. Yes, it's definitely in the top 3 aggravating utterances!

 

[winjim]

Brexit, what a stupid annoying word/thing that is.

I dislike it especially as it's a clumsy portmanteau. My wife for some reason dislikes the very word 'portmanteau'.

 

[Electric_Andy]

@Pale Rider Enjoy.. Yes, it's definitely in the top 3 aggravating utterances!

I hate it when the word is forced upon you e.g "please enjoy your meal outside", when they really mean "eat". What if i don't enjoy the food? You can't make me. You're not my real dad

 

[Blue Hills]

Absolutely.

Absolutely nothing wrong with the word, just its use when a simple 'yes' would do.

has long annoyed me.
It's very often just the middle class equivalent of "yeh, right" or similar used by folk of limited conversational inclination or ability who would sneer at their lower class compatriots while imagining that their favoured term makes them sound clever, considered, worldly.

 

[DCBassman]

Dunny maybe in OZ but never "bathroom"

The worst euphemistic offender on this subject is the American "rest rooms".

 

[PeteXXX]

The worst euphemistic offender on this subject is the American "rest rooms".

I hear you (that's another annoying set of words!)
It's often more of an effort than a Rest 😏

 

[sheddy]

Nestled

 

[matticus]

"Absolutely.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the word, just its use when a simple 'yes' would do.
"
has long annoyed me. It's very often just the middle class equivalent of "yeh, right" or similar used by folk of limited conversational inclination or ability who would sneer at their lower class compatriots while imagining that their favoured term makes them sound clever, considered, worldly.
Yes

Fixed-that-for-you.

 

[MichaelW2]

Sibling.
Unless they are genderqueer in which case you get two words for the price of one.
Or they identify as genderqueer, which makes three.
I used to like the word pronoun back when it just meant happy.

 

[swee'pea99]

Buddy. As used increasingly by tats 'n beard chaps behind the bar. I am nobody's buddy, buddy, just give me the beer.

 

[Speicher]

"Baked in"

Baked in what? An Oven? You've been watching too many cookery programmes.

Sewers? Could be a seamstress, or a tailor or ..... anything rather than a conduit for effluent.

 

[derrick]

(Patina). used by idiot tv presenters.