# Does anyone else dislike "cromulent"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818 "2013-11-26T14:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/61 "2013-11-27T11:36:03Z")
> [@Dickerman](#): > > I don’t like it either, but it’s not as bad as another (apparently) made up word: copacetic > > Makes me want to hurt the utterer. And yet I have always felt “copacetic” (meaning, very good / excellent / completely satisfactory) to be a rather elegant and inspired word-coining (not that I actually use it much); whereas “cromulent” – like “copacetic” for you – makes me want to “go postal” on its users. Conclusion, maybe: we’re strange creatures, and our instinctive likes and dislikes don’t make sense and are not consistent – they’ve no need to do or be so, they just are. All kinds of strange-and-marvellous derivations suggested, for “copacetic” – [www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cop1.htm](http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cop1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/62 "2013-11-28T00:27:43Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I don’t know. I am not getting why “whilst” upsets you. Are there other common, well-established words that upset you? Are synonyms to be outlawed? Whilst bugs me too. It seems that mostly UKers tend to use it a lot in places where normal Americans would just say "while. Why that makes it annoying, I dunno, they use lots of silly words, but it does. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/63 "2013-11-28T11:13:58Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Whilst bugs me too. It seems that mostly UKers tend to use it a lot in places where normal Americans would just say "while. **Why that makes it annoying, I dunno, they use lots of silly words** , but it does. Believe it or not, we think the same about you people. Strange, that… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/64 "2013-11-28T12:31:56Z")
I’m American and I’ve always used a lot of “British” words. Like spilt and spelt (vs spilled and spelled) as well as whilst and amongst. In fact, just the other week I looked up when to use “among” vs “amongst” because I didn’t know the difference and found out they are the same. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/65 "2013-11-28T18:49:37Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Eh, I get the OP. The word wasn’t something that developed organically, it was made up for a joke and then latched on to by people who wanted to say the joke. It’s not as though it has roots in some other part of the language. > > Not that I care much about the word. When I hear someone use it, I just sort of wonder why they’re trying to be clever by reciting a 20 year old Simpsons episode. It’s like adopting the spelling of the word “duh” as “doh”. Equally “off-putting”. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/66 "2013-11-28T23:28:51Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > It’s like adopting the spelling of the word “duh” as “doh”. Equally “off-putting”. Duh and doh are two different words. Duh is an implication that something should have been obvious, duh. Doh is an annoyed grunt. Also, there’s often a ’ in d’oh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818.md?page=3)