# Is anyone else annoyed by the word "veggies"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796 "2023-03-06T18:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/21 "2023-03-06T19:16:09Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > I’m assuming the ‘g’ is soft? It’s veg, as in the first syllable of vegetable (or veggie) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/22 "2023-03-06T19:16:47Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Same goes for adults calling things ‘yummy’. Yeah, on this one, when I rarely go check facebook and I see someone, an adult, posting a picture of their food, with this word, it makes me stabby. Oops! Dammit! ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/23 "2023-03-06T19:17:10Z")
Actually you’re right there; I don’t think ‘vegs’ is a word in English. My wife or I might say when one of us is off to the grocery store “don’t forget the veg for dinner”. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/24 "2023-03-06T19:18:50Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > I don’t think ‘vegs’ is a word in English Veg can certainly be plural, as in the classic “meat and two veg”. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/25 "2023-03-06T19:19:56Z")
A US colleague of mine described the flat italian bread product as “za”. She was someway into her order-taking before I understood what the hell she was on about. I’m not saying she _should_ have been sacked on the spot, that’s for others to decide. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/26 "2023-03-06T19:20:07Z")
I think the first person I heard use the word “veg” was Austin Powers and I think he was talking about his testicles. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/27 "2023-03-06T19:22:15Z")
Right. You wouldn’t ask for meat and two ‘vegs’; it’s already plural in that context. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/28 "2023-03-06T19:22:49Z")
It could be worse - someone could be saying it “veg-Eh-tahbles”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/29 "2023-03-06T19:24:00Z")
Obligatory Parks and Rec clip [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3mQoI_a_toU/hqdefault.jpg "Parks and Rec - Tom Haverford: Apps and Zerts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mQoI_a_toU) ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/30 "2023-03-06T19:25:59Z")
Za? Is that like ‘leetspeak’ or something? (A dialect that apparently had some popularity about a decade ago). ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/31 "2023-03-06T19:38:58Z")
Anyone familiar with the musical _Something Rotten_? From the song, “Omelette”: > [@](#): > > The solution to your troubles > Is cheese and veg-uh-tubbles. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/32 "2023-03-06T19:43:11Z")
Lots of words are routinely shortened or abbreviated, e.g. “info” for information. I don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/33 "2023-03-06T19:44:55Z")
Veggies is fine, sammies is marginal. Vin-eh-GAH-rette, however, should be a punishable offense requiring bread and water rations. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/34 "2023-03-06T19:44:59Z")
My friends and I used “za” to mean “pizza” in college in Illinois back in the mid 1970s. [This](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/people-calling-pizza-za) article says Barry Popik trace it to “Midwestern college slang from 1966, 1967 and 1968” which fits my experience, and says its type of slang called “clipping”. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/35 "2023-03-06T19:53:14Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Lots of words are routinely shortened or abbreviated But never both, surely. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/36 "2023-03-06T19:57:28Z")
Are you okay with “veejay” or “veejayjay” for vagina? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/37 "2023-03-06T19:57:44Z")
The only contact I had with it was a magazine article about incomprehensible college slang. The only other bit I remember was that parents were 'rents. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/38 "2023-03-06T19:57:56Z")
What about ‘pressies’ for presents? I’ve heard folks from Down Under say that too. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/39 "2023-03-06T20:02:01Z")
And how do we all feel about calling tests . . . oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/40 "2023-03-06T20:04:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Are you okay with “veejay” or “veejayjay” for vagina? I’m annoyed that people say “vagina” when they mean “vulva.” > [@markn\_1](#): > > My friends and I used “za” to mean “pizza” in college in Illinois back in the mid 1970s. “Za” for pizza is something I hate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=3)