I don’t like “Authentic.” It’s being overused, esp. don’t like “Be your authentic self!”
“You guys” is fine. I grew up with it. Here in PA it took me a while to get used to “Yous Guys.” It’s said by pretty much everyone (native), everywhere here in a regional way. Can’t say I’ve adopted it as a saying, but I’m used to hearing it now. Another local one is using “let/lay” instead of “leave.” “Let that lay on the table.” Or, “let that alone.”
I learned, “y’all” from my southern H. I like the word, so use it occasionally. It’s definitely better than, “Yous Guys.”
I’m perfectly fine with “nor’easter.” I guess more than fine. I like it.
Not gonna let go of nor’easter, are you?
Look, you don’t have to love it, but that’s the way the word. is. spelled. You can try to change it, but that is the word.
@MWolf wrote
Got the shivers just from reading this, closely related to my touching velvet phobia
I really can’t stand when stores or businesses change spellings to be cutesy. Like “Kountry Korners”. For heavens sake they both start with C so you can have your alliteration!
“Chick Fil A”
“Boot Kamp”
“Kidz N Kuts”
I feel badly instead of I feel bad. Do you feel sadly too?
Some of the ones mentioned we use jokingly in our household, on accident and by purpose, prolly but I wouldn’t use them around anyone except our immediate family. They stem from inside jokes.
@surfcity, I’d add places that try to be quaint and old country with spellings like Olde Village Shoppes.
@Mwfan1921 : “The feel of velvet gives me shivers (similar to walking on crunchy snow/ice, nails on a blackboard)”
I got the chills just reading that!
On newscasts: We are efforting to get details on that story. Effort is a noun, not a verb.
On the other hand, I have no problem with an occasional use of adulting.
I can attempt to explain the inconsistency by pointing out that efforting has many single word synonyms, for example trying, attempting, and working. Adulting when used as a noun or a verb requires a phrase to replace it, like doing tasks that one has to begin doing for one’s self upon becoming an independent adult.
There are folks who don’t like walking on crunchy snow??? I love the sound!
I don’t like the font where the uppercase letter A is shown as an upside down V without the line in the middle.
@Creekland: “There are folks who don’t like walking on crunchy snow??? I love the sound!”
Bullet straight to my head with that one.
If you really want the fingernails on a blackboard experience, imagine writing with a ballpoint pen that you’ve forgotten to click. Or erasing, vigorously, but the eraser fell out of your pencil, and all you have is bare metal. I shuddered even typing this.
@garland : Nor’easter is most certainly the old term for this specific type of storm. But I do remember noticing in the early ‘80s that this was a term that our weather reporters latched on to. I’m a Jersey girl and didn’t grow up with the term. My dad and I laughed about it at the time, like we were all gonna start dressing like the Gorton’s Fisherman, because a Nor’Easter’s a-comin’. Prior to that, we’d just call them storms.
I can’t get used to the fact that a negative medical test result is a positive thing, and vice-versa.
Ooh yeah that really high pitched squeak from very very cold snow? No thanks! And that reminds me of another one I hate - styrofoam anything. Oh, unboxing anything packed tightly in styrofoam is the worst. I have to say, one of the only nice things about getting older is losing that end of my hearing and having that horrible sound not be quite so awful as it used to be.
Well, if we’re just going to talk about things that give us the skeeves, here’s mine: Biting into a dry washcloth. Ewwwwwww. Anything that dries my teeth out is – icky squared.
Um… why do you bite into a washcloth, wet or dry?
And “gone missing” or “went missing”. They haven’t gone/went missing, they are simply missing.
Beats the heck out of me. Maybe my older sister used to make me do it. I don’t remember.