# I pit a lowly, yet exceedingly annoying, word **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094 "2007-01-30T08:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/21 "2007-01-30T11:32:22Z")
It’s not a word, but my current annoyance is people who say “big huge”. Well obviously if it’s big, it’s going to be huge…I wish they’d stick to ginormous. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/22 "2007-01-30T11:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] It’s not anywhere near as annoying as _planogram_ [/QUOTE] That’s a very light aircraft isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/23 "2007-01-30T11:35:33Z")
Very light. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/24 "2007-01-30T11:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] It’s not a word, but my current annoyance is people who say “big huge”. Well obviously if it’s big, it’s going to be huge…I wish they’d stick to ginormous. [/QUOTE] I know a couple of people who use ‘fuck off’ as a general intensifier, for example: “I turned the corner and there was this fuck off huge road tanker tearing down the hill towards me” “It’s the second left after that fuck off tall radio mast - you can’t miss it” ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/25 "2007-01-30T11:44:44Z")
I’m waiting for someone to say it’s something “large big huge enormous ginormous fuck off I’ve never seen one that big in my life before ever”…actually, it’s possible that 'im indoors has been waiting for me to say that to him… ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/26 "2007-01-30T11:46:36Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It’s not anywhere near as annoying as planogram AAAAAHHHH! I worked a summer job at Target (a slightly more upscale version of Wal-Mart, for our international brethren), remodeling the entire layout of the store. When I was tasked with setting up shelving and pegs on the aisles, my boss gave me a stack of papers with the specifications as to what kind of pegs and shelves to use and where to put them. That stack of papers is called…a planogram. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/27 "2007-01-30T11:56:42Z")
Yes, in fact it seems that the term is exclusive to retail fixturing. It’s annoying because either one of _‘plan’_ or _‘diagram’_ would have been quite adequate on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/28 "2007-01-30T12:23:35Z")
Heck, try hanging around _les Quebecoises_. Sooner or later, you’ll find one that punctuates every declarative sentence with “Dat’s it, dat’s awl” even if he’s speaking French at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/29 "2007-01-30T12:41:54Z")
_ahem_ So you say you don’t like the word… GINORMOUS??? Darn… I rather liked… GINORMOUS I think it has an intrinsic silliness that the words… GINORMOUS is composed of simply lacks. It would be a great loss to mankind if never… GINORMOUS were used again. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/30 "2007-01-30T12:59:38Z")
I use the term “a whole buttload” instead. Draws a picture in both the listener’s mind as well as his colon. I saw a sign in a bistro last night for “Chicken Cordon Bleu.” Why not translate it all the way to “Poulet Cordon Bleu?” Because nobody would know what it is, that’s why. But if you called it “Chicken Blue String” people would ask “blue string? What - like its arteries?” So it’s translated halfassed to accommodate both the ignorance and affectation of those venturing out to a bistro (“Quickly!”) from their McMansion in a cul de sac (“bottom of bag.”) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/31 "2007-01-30T13:25:36Z")
Mmmm, blue string pudding ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/32 "2007-01-30T13:39:19Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] I use the term “a whole buttload” instead. [/QUOTE] Metric or imperial? ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/33 "2007-01-30T15:29:59Z")
Ginormous is fine when spoken, where you can put appropriate emphasis on the first syllable. It should always be pronounced _ **GI** _-normous. It’s not merely gigantic, like J-Lo’s ass. It’s nothing so pedestrian as the enormousness of Bill O’Reilly’s ego. It is _ **GI** _-normous. It is the _ **GI** _-normousness of the national debt, Ford’s losses, or the debacle in Iraq. But then again I also like craptacular and baditude. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/34 "2007-01-30T15:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=Martiju] That’s a very light aircraft isn’t it? [/QUOTE] Light, very light, and ultralight have specific (if not FAA accepted in each case) definitions. It is not axiomatic that all aircraft are ‘light’. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/35 "2007-01-30T15:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] Light, very light, and ultralight have specific (if not FAA accepted in each case) definitions. It is not axiomatic that all aircraft are ‘light’. [/QUOTE] Wow, way to kill a poor pun! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/36 "2007-01-30T16:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] I couldn’t even spell it right. [/QUOTE] Pete Townshend spells it _gynormouse_ on the back cover of his first solo album (“one gynormouse ego trip”). A writer for Rolling Stone misread Townshend’s handwriting and quoted it as “gyromouse” in his review. I figure that Gyromouse is either a cartoon superhero, or an extremely light aircraft… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/37 "2007-01-30T17:44:47Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] It may be a real word, but it’s still a stupid one. What good is a redundant portmanteau? If you need to stuff two words into one, don’t have them mean the same thing. [/QUOTE] Yeh, especially when there’s a perfectly good word like “humongous” available. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/38 "2007-01-30T17:49:47Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] I couldn’t even spell it right. Two outta three? 😛 [/QUOTE] I think that is how it’s spelled in Britain. [QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] It’s not a word, but my current annoyance is people who say “big huge”. Well obviously if it’s big, it’s going to be huge… [/QUOTE] My related pet peeves are “added bonus” and “my personal opinion”. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/39 "2007-01-30T18:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] It’s not a word, but my current annoyance is people who say “big huge”. [/QUOTE] Paging **koeeoaddi**! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094/40 "2007-01-30T18:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Paging **koeeoaddi**! [/QUOTE] 😃 [So, WTF is a ‘Tam’ anyway?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Tam_and_the_Big_Huge) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-a-lowly-yet-exceedingly-annoying-word/390094.md?page=3)