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Words which set your teeth on edge

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Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:08 / 25.09.04

"Shawoman."

HnnguhnnnnrrraHHHHHHHHHHHHDIEDIEDIEDIEEEEEEE!

Benny the Ball

19:17 / 25.09.04

I hate the phrase 'That's page one' as in, ask stupid question or fail to do something simple, some fat prick with a loud mouth and too much testosterone in him will say that phrase, as if to say well everyone who's read the manual knows how to do that, it's on page one.

Looby

09:10 / 27.09.04

I had to work for a boss who insisted on 'pre-warning' people about things. Surely by the act of warning them in the first place you're telling them in advance. Otherwise it would be a pretty useless warning...

My partner/other half/boyfriend can't stand the word 'bimble' as in 'I bimbled to the shops this morning', I quite like it though.

One friend of mine pronounces 'moist' as 'mwast' which somehow makes it much worse.

'Can-do attitude' is another horrid phrase, especially when used in job ads. You just know that this means 'we'll give you a load of complicated, yet crap jobs that a more senior member of staff should be doing but can't be arsed and we won't pay you for it'.

Timelord

10:22 / 28.09.04

GOTTEN!!!!!

How has this thread gotten so far without anyone mentioning this word, GOTTEN, before now?

GOTTEN?????

OK so the Macquarie "English" Dictionary has accepted the damn thing as an actual word BUT I REFUSE TO ACCEPT IT!

It's not a fucking word. "Got" is a word, 'I received" is a term of expression, "It has become" is perfectably acceptable, but "It's gotten" is just plain WRONG!

Mr Macquarie rescind your previous directive. Gottten does NOT, I repeat NOT (in huge capital bold highlighted letters) belong in the English language!!!!!!!!

!!

!

w1rebaby

10:32 / 28.09.04

Oh, I forgot one: Islamofascism. Hello, serious use of that word has just marked you out as a propaganda-spouting wingnut.

Timelord

10:35 / 28.09.04

Oh, and sports "personalities" who preface the answer to every question with "Yeah no". You listen to them!

"How was the race?", "Yeah, no, it was OK"

"What did you you think of that opening incident?", "Yeah, no, I don't know what was going on"

"Are you pleased with the outcome, it was pretty hairy there for a while?", "Yeah... no, it isn't for me to say..."

AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:36 / 28.09.04

Actually, gotten is an archaic form, abandoned or never used in much of the Anglophone world but still in use in many parts of the US. However, the OED identifies it as non-standard even there.

Timelord

10:46 / 28.09.04

"still in use in many parts of the US"

I rest my case.

Smoothly

15:57 / 21.10.04

Panties - I think this might be related to my hatred of baby-talk, but there's something particularly unsavoury, I think, about "panties".

Meeja (sic) - Particularly out of the mouth of someone who works in the media and thinks it sounds disarmingly self-mocking.

King of Town

19:20 / 21.10.04

Until this moment I thought that gotten was very correct gramatically, but I mostly avoid all forms of the word 'get' because it is so overused here. Some parts of America have much worse words than gotten. In Utah, I occasionally hear words such as drinken: "I've never drinken one of those before," and boughten: "I haven't boughten my ticket yet." Also drawl(though it is used more by children than adults): I like to drawl pictures, but I've never drawled one like that."

charrellz

18:39 / 24.11.04

Oh, I've only recently discovered Teh and it's already pissed me off no end. At least its not actually spoken...
Sadly, it is now being spoken amongst America's youth. God help us all.

In an effort to redeem ourselves of our horrid culture, for the last year and a half my brother and I have been say aluminium as well as laboratory instead of labratory.

Oh, and I just can not stand Americans saying 'Bugger off!' in a terrible terrible terrible British accent.

One last word that sets my teeth on edge: Computer. Nothing against the object it refers to, I just have trouble saying it sometimes, so it pisses me off.

Papess

18:59 / 24.11.04

I have just realized, I have been writing and saying "fustrate" I was thinking of course this makes sense because it is related to the word "fuss".

Right here, I would just like to invite 'lithers to bonk me on the head. Please form an orderly line here.

I am terribly frustrated by this.

Spatula Clarke

19:08 / 24.11.04

One last word that sets my teeth on edge: Computer. Nothing against the object it refers to, I just have trouble saying it sometimes, so it pisses me off.

Dude, I can't say my own name properly. Honest to god. My mouth anbd tongue, they no like forming the beginning of my surname immediately after the end of my forename, so I always end up having to do surname, forename, like some bargain bin James Bond wannabe.

ibis the being

19:14 / 24.11.04

My mouth anbd tongue, they no like forming the beginning of my surname immediately after the end of my forename

This is why more parents should consider how the first & last roll off the tongue when naming their children.

I can't say ibuprofen, nor antibiotics. Antibiotics, lord, that is a real fucker of a word whether you say "ANT-EE-BY" or "ANT-EYE-BY." I try it both ways and I just can't spit it out.

charrellz

20:36 / 24.11.04

Dude, I can't say my own name properly.
I had the same problem when I was really young. After lots of practice and even more dental restructuring, I can finally utter my own name. Joy of joys. I like how I described my youthful speech impediment in something for creative writing class once: It was like talking with a mouthful of marbles, only the marbles were made of pudding.

Ariadne

20:40 / 24.11.04

I'm dying to know what your names are now. Can you tell us the end of one and the start of the other without giving the game away?
I used to work with a girl who couldn't say the word 'signal' no matter how hard she tried. It always came out as 'single'.

Spatula Clarke

22:03 / 24.11.04

Ariadne> While it's those two bits that I have trouble with, they're not the cause of the trouble. At least, not on their own. It's the overall combination of the two names that messes things up - it asks my mouth to perform gymnastic feats that are simply beyond it. This:

It was like talking with a mouthful of marbles, only the marbles were made of pudding.

is a wonderful description, but personally it's more like somebody stuffed my lips with cotton wool and deadened my tongue. You know when you're having a filling at the dentist and have to swill your mouth with that pink stuff to get shot of all the little bits of tooth that have fallen to the back of your tongue, and when you go to spit the pink stuff out the numbness means you end up with it glooping out of the sides of your face? It's like that, only with consonant and vowel sounds instead of pink stuff.

Saint Keggers

02:41 / 25.11.04

meteorologist When I was a child some weatherman misspronounced it Meaty Urologist. I have hated the weatherman ever since.

astrojax69

03:30 / 25.11.04

near-miss

if you 'nearly miss', then you hit. surely it is referring to a 'near hit'??

and 'like'

like, i hate that that, and i'm just like, you know.... like gross.

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark off, like. go have a near miss on me!

: )

Smoothly

11:07 / 25.11.04

I don't understand your objection, astrojax. It's true that if you 'nearly miss' something then you hit it, but a *near* miss is a miss, just a near one. No?

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:16 / 25.11.04

I don't like the use of the word "cunch".

It's disgusting, it sounds like the sound of dry genitalia.

"Pranny" is fucking annoying as well, i always feel really sussed when someone calls me a pranny. AAAAAGGGHHH!

Anyhoot that's me

Cheerie Bye.

FORD

Alex's Grandma

12:32 / 25.11.04

I am sooo hearing you, Harrison

Whisky Priestess

15:10 / 25.11.04

Dude, what the hell is a cunch?

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

15:17 / 25.11.04

look it up, it's far to annoying for me to explain. God it's making me angry just thinking about it!

■

20:04 / 25.11.04

Ooh, Jesus, that's nasty. People use that?

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:17 / 05.04.05

"frubbly"

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

19:56 / 05.04.05

"Gay" used as an adjective of nonspecific negative meaning referring to something that isn't a person or (I suppose) an animal

"Dude! I fell over and hurt my knee!"
"That's, like, so gay, man"

It's not the implied prejudice/homophobia that really gets to me (unless I think about it too much), it's the substitution of one insulting and (in this context) meaningless word for a whole load of perfectly good negative adjectives.

Also "topping", a word which it is impossible to say without sounding very, very prissy.

ibis the being

20:33 / 05.04.05

Ha! What a funny coincidence, I went out for ice cream today with a friend of mine and got a Boston Cream Pie flavored dish. She asked me, "How was the whipped topping?" and I replied, "Actually, I asked them to hold the whipped topping," and then we both cracked up about what a silly word "topping" is.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:09 / 06.04.05

You mean like "pie flavoured desert with a chocolate-effect flavour topping" or topping as a verb?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:11 / 06.04.05

How about as an adjective?

"I say, old chap, how simply topping".

Bastard Tweed

02:33 / 06.04.05

I hate it when people use the word "reference" as a verb. While "verbing words", as Calvin so adroitly named it, is fairly common these days; that one misuse in particular really ruffles my feathers because the verb you're supposed to use is actually inside the word you're misusing!

"What movie where you referencing?"

"Do you mean, 'What movie was I referring to?'?"

Goddammit, makes me so mad spelling goes all meshugeneh.

Mazarine

02:39 / 06.04.05

Do you mean "Do you mean 'To which movie was I referring?'"

Sorry, couldn't resist. : )

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

09:08 / 06.04.05

You mean like "pie flavoured desert with a chocolate-effect flavour topping" or topping as a verb?

Both. It's just the sound of it that really gets to me. It's like a dripping tap or something.

Eloi Tsabaoth

09:10 / 06.04.05

Lookey Likey. Die with wounds.

wembley can change in 28 days

11:46 / 06.04.05

Experience.
Enjoy.

As in, experience the new iPod woopy! and for your safety, please do not enjoy this ice cream while driving with your pants down. I absolutely, stunningly, do not want to be told whether or not I will enjoy something.

Functionality
I just fucking hate this word. It's so ugly. Your new phone comes with enhanced (ooh, there's another one) calling funtionalities.

Quebeckers
No wonder the Quebecois hate us.

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