# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/61 "2023-03-06T21:15:19Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > What about ‘pressies’ for presents? I’ve heard folks from Down Under say that too. And they get pressies for Chrissie. I think the addition of “ie” to shorten words is pretty prevalent down there. See also: shrimp on the barbie. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/62 "2023-03-06T21:20:37Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > So I don’t mind people calling things yummy, but I do hate ‘yummy noises’. “Mmmm…mmmm.” I have a friend who used to do that quite intentionally, but also unironically, and it drove me batshit. Whenever he did it I just wanted to punch him in the face. Which I never failed to tell him, which always made him laugh 😀. My mother said I made “yummy” sounds like that when I was an infant. I hope your could restrain yourself from punching a baby in the face. 🙃 > [@nelliebly](#): > > I’m not fond of the British “veg,” but it doesn’t irritate me as much as “pud” for pudding, aka dessert. “Pud” just sounds so ugly to me. I don’t know why. I agree. Both are somewhat annoying to me. I think it’s because ‘pud’ sounds like pudenda. ‘Veg’ just sounds like someone too lazy to say more than one syllable…similar to ‘za’ for pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/63 "2023-03-06T21:20:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Probably off topic, but can we agree that anyone who says “easy peasy” may be beaten to a pulp, and that people who add “lemon squeezy” to it may be summarily executed? My version is Easy Peasy George and Wheezy. mmm ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/64 "2023-03-06T21:34:57Z")
I don’t mind “veggies”, and sometimes use it. What bothers me is “poop”, in the context of articles etc. written for adults. “Poop” to me is a word for toddlers. If you can’t bring yourself to say “shit”, what’s wrong with “dung” or “excrement” or “turd” or even “BM”? > [@Chefguy](#): > > Are you okay with “veejay” or “veejayjay” for vagina? I don’t like that one either. It seems to me to carry an implication that the words “vagina” and “vulva” are somehow dirty; and an additional implication that you’re “tee-hee”-ing about how daring you think you are to be mentioning such things at all. (General you, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/65 "2023-03-06T21:37:52Z")
Yeah. But “za” is a great word to use in Scrabble, especially when there’s an A next to a triple-letter space and you happen to have another A. Easy 62 points. The word I hate is “kiddos”, especially when said by our local newscasters. They’re _kids_, or better, _children_. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/66 "2023-03-06T22:20:49Z")
Here’s a thread from a year ago about terms like “veggies” that piss some people off. “Veggies” took a beating in that thread. The OP will approve. > [@Alternative names used for certain products that aggravate the hell out of you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-names-used-for-certain-products-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/931426): > > Note: In my list, I have the actual name of the product, plus the alternate name, both separated by a slash (/), and the bolded name being the one I hate. I have a couple: Plush/Stuffed animal - What if it’s not an animal? Is it a stuffed human? Is it a stuffed whale? Tissue/Kleenex - What if the brand isn’t Kleenex? You don’t hear people say, “Go get me a Puffs; I’m stuffy,” do you? Can’t think of any more at the moment, but I will return if I think of any more. What alternative names irri… “Veggies” also gets a dis-honorable mention well down in this long-running and still ongoing thread from 3-1/2 years ago: > [@Phrases/terms that aggravate the hell out of you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894): > > Occasionally there are phrases and/or terms that make their way into conversational vogue among journalists and others that just rub me the wrong way. Sometimes it’s because they’re pretentious, others because they’re factually wrong, and others because they’re just ignorant. The one that’s been getting me lately is the use of “countless” as a shorthand for a large number. I usually grind my teeth because some dipshit will say “and countless people suffered X” or whatever, and I think “No, we… ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/67 "2023-03-06T22:29:45Z")
Veggy doesn’t bother me, but I go by the rule I learned in second grade that “you change the y to an i, and add e s to make a word ending in y plural”! Anyway, the one that I hate is alum. Alum is used in pickles. It’s aluminum potassium sulfate. Alumnus, alumni, alumna, and alumnae are short enough and sound and read much better than alum or alums. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/68 "2023-03-06T22:34:46Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > And they get pressies for Chrissie. I think the addition of “ie” to shorten words is pretty prevalent down there. See also: shrimp on the barbie. They have to talk fast, they’re busy running away from venomous plants and animals. BTW, didn’t the Beatles start out on VeeJay records? ---
**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, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/69 "2023-03-06T22:55:34Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > Za? Is that like ‘leetspeak’ or something? (A dialect that apparently had some popularity about a decade ago). I’m not familiar with that term either but I was too perplexed to dig too much into where the term came from. Could’ve been a regionalism of course and who am I to talk? I’m from the north-east of the UK and we are no strangers to curious terms that make no sense to anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/70 "2023-03-06T23:16:46Z")
I don’t mind the word “veggies” too much. I mean, I’ve heard the word pronounced “ve-gee-tuh-bulls” so it seems like a reasonable abbreviation. It’s a useful truncation. On the other hand, “sammie” is the same number of syllables as “sandwich”. You save nothing in using it and are sacrificing whatever shred of dignity you might have. Quizno’s sells something they call “sammies” and now they have seemingly vanished everywhere. (They filed for Chapter 11 in 2014, though the restaurant chain is still around somewhere.) I blame that choice. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rg82D96wUQ0/hqdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rg82D96wUQ0/hqdefault.jpg) I absolutely loathe “za”. The only reason to use it is to try to sound cool. You don’t sound cool. You sound like a really uncool person desperate to try to sound cool. Stop it. ---
**Author:** ![fordgt100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fordgt100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fordgt100)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/71 "2023-03-06T23:18:15Z")
> **Casual crudeness hidden, nothing but trolling from the looks.** > > I like it. It reminds me of titties. Well, if I’m in the melon section it does ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/72 "2023-03-07T01:16:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Are you okay with “veejay” or “veejayjay” for vagina? I don’t think I’ve heard _anyone_ use those terms before. It’s “_vah_-jayjay” and who says “veejay”? ---
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> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Alumnus, alumni, alumna, and alumnae are short enough and sound and read much better than alum or alums. Nah. I hate having to learn Latin declentions for a word I use in English. Alum it is. Covers all the bases. Plus, in today’s environment, it’s not gendered, so you don’t have to worry if someone identifies as an alumnus or alumna or other. ---
**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 7, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/74 "2023-03-07T01:50:19Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > I’ll leave it to Quadgop to answer JAQ got it right ---
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Or, like my ex-gf’s mother, not pronounce the “t”: “Vegeables” It drove me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/76 "2023-03-07T03:03:48Z")
The is a warning and a suspension and we’re reviewing your posting privileges as we speak. Grow up maybe. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/77 "2023-03-07T03:12:11Z")
My brother brought “za” home from the Navy back around 1995; it’s not something new. It never bugged me, but I don’t use it. He (and USN) also had CLOP. Which is what za turns into tomorrow: Cold Left-over Pizza. CLOP makes an excellent breakfast. You’re welcome! 😉 ---
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> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > > [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > > > Za? Is that like ‘leetspeak’ or something? (A dialect that apparently had some popularity about a decade ago). > > I’m not familiar with that term either but I was too perplexed to dig too much into where the term came from. Could’ve been a regionalism of course and who am I to talk? I’m from the north-east of the UK and we are no strangers to curious terms that make no sense to anyone else. I only know it from Harry Dresden books. ---
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I find all of the above cutesy “abbreviations(?)” (is there a name for this type of word mutilation?) moderately annoying, but the one that really sets my teeth on edge is “goodie.” As in: “Did you find any little goodies at the yard sale?” Irrational, I know. Makes me cray cray🤢 ---
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Veggies make me think of the late, lamented **Kitchen Kabaret** show at The Land Pavilion at Epcot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=5)