words you hate the most (3 Viewers)

[mazzyianne]

I'm worried now.
it's toe-fu, isn't it?
ISN'T IT????

Yup, you're safe
the rest of you - watch it...

cool the jets there roisin

watch it.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

do people still say that things are "rasper"?

 

[Spam Javelin]

"Viscous"

"Tremendous" when pronounced "Treemenjous"

"Boss" when pronounced "Bohssh"

"Administrative" because I am unable to say it without slurring the first half the word and adding several syllables to the other.

 

[Hector Grey]

"Viscous"

"Tremendous" when pronounced "Treemenjous"

"Boss" when pronounced "Bohssh"

"Administrative" because I am unable to say it without slurring the first half the word and adding several syllables to the other.

oh yeah...
or sexswell for sexual and tisswue for tissue.

 

[mazzyianne]

womb card

 

[coraline]

I had a loon biology teacher who insisted til she was blue in the face that the wind part of "windpipe" is pronounced like mind. Weirdo.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

 

[Spam Javelin]

Did you know that the "ye" in "ye olde" etc is actually pronounced "the", not "ye".
I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, but I'm convinced I'm right.

 

[ICUH8N]

i hate lazy critics and their words

poignant
timeless
sophomore
emo-ish
wordage
riffage
emotive
über-anything
noise-niks
sheer
gloriously
lilting
think "x" meets "y"
lashings
permeates
stellar
..
just all those wanky, unnecessary adjectives that they use to get their word limit without having to actually think.

Apropos of nothing...this book is one of my favourite things on the internet. Section III and the section on style in particular often leap, unbidden, to mind whilst reading essays/articles/etc

 

[carbide]

At some point there must have been a memo sent around RTE to the effect that the following phrases:

- Hello
- Goodbye
- How are you?
- I'm fine
- How wonderful!
- Thank you
- Why, you're welcome

were to be replaced with the infinitely more noxious "HAPPY DAYS !!/??"

It makes blood seep from my ears.

i used to work in a medical college, and the dean would use "happy days" to mean all of the above and as a response to everything from free cake to the building being on fire. always in the same tone. it stopped being irritating and became kinda sweet after a while.

 

[shidheat]

edjamacated, rosemantic and other modified words like that. it's not funny.

also, 'bless'.

 

[coraline]

complimicated

multiplication ( its still weird )

 

[itaflange]

"yous"...

the random (and completely unwarranted) addition of an 's' to pluralise the conveniently (or so we thought) singular and plural pronoun "you".

like, oh my god...
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[St. Fechin]

ethos

Just heard it again, what a completely unnecessary and meaningless word.