Words and / or Phrases Which Make You Squirm!

THIS! I only notice it from younger people and yes, newscasters. I even hear it in commercials. Drives me nuts.

@patsmom I just learned the dropped T has a name: T-glottalization! And we’re not the only ones annoyed by it. Is this the new vocal fry we need to endure???

Vacay/delish/comfy/prolly and all their cousins.

“Simply”. As in, any time an ad says “or simply” do such-and-such, it’s never more simple than any of the alternatives.

Which vs that (sorry). For some reason I can’t grasp the who/whom distinction, but which/that jumps out at me.

“Ecosystem”, as a business word.

“It’s in our DNA” about a company.

“Deep dive” in the absence of water.

“Utilize” when you can simply say “use”

“Food baby”

“My bad” - for some reason this sounds so ugly to me.

“Awesome”

“Impactful”

The use of “ima” as an abbreviation for “I’m going to” by people who don’t otherwise speak AAVE
Drill down
Dial in
Transformative

Paradigm and paradigm shift. During my 40 years in education, we would put buzzwords like this on makeshift bingo cards for meetings and professional development sessions.

Sammy for sandwich is just stupid.

BFF
Besties

References to a spouse that drive me nuts–hubster, hubby, the hubs, old man Also, wifey, old lady, ball-and-chain, the misses, etc.

I am always surprised when I hear smart folks misuse lay/lie, who/whom, I/me.

fewer/less, using ‘best’ when only 2 things are being compared, I worked with a colleague who said mute point, drove me bananas.

Nuke-ear, and nukular, for nuclear. George W Bush couldn’t handle that word, for one.

Can’t stand the whole “OK Boomer” trend. Luckily that seems to be going away.

When having a discussion online and someone states their opinion and ends it with “end of story”.

It’s a teenage thing but I get on my D for starting sentences with “I don’t want to be mean, but…”. Whatever comes after that sentence is probably going to be mean. Also when teenagers say something mean and when the subject gets upset and they say, “But it was just a joke.” Totally annoys me. It’s like saying, “I was a jerk but it’s not my fault you’re mad because I was joking.”

Keep your eyes peeled. That one even hurts to type.

OK Boomer. ?

HATE HATE HATE that phrase.

Yeah, but she was saying it in a “it’s not fine” way. :wink:

I hear it the other way around much more often, and find it quite annoying. “Look at that women. She’s so angry.”

In addition to disliking “the girls” instead of breasts, I really detest cutesy nicknames for female sex organs, ESPECIALLY when health professionals use those words. Come on, we are adults here.

“Needs fixed” instead of “needs to be fixed.”

I’m sure a lot of people hate “I’m fixin’ to go to the store,” which is common where I live. I’ve been trying to eliminate that from my vocabulary. “Needs eliminated” I guess. :smiley:

Somehow I knew that was coming! LOL!