# Words In the English Language You Hate For no Reason **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332 "2002-08-30T17:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/101 "2002-09-20T04:20:41Z")
I absolutely loath the use of “party” as a verb. Friends, amusing chatter, finger foods, music, dancing-these are the things that made life fun, but whenever I hear someone say “We’re gonna party this weekend,” I start mentally deducting IQ points. ---
**Author:** ![flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flowers)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/102 "2002-09-20T16:17:02Z")
I despise the word **savour**. I have no idea why, I just do. I also despise the word **akimbo** , because, again I have no idea why, it brings to mind the image of dirty, sockless feet in tennis shoes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/103 "2002-09-21T12:07:15Z")
Restaurants around here always describe themseles as **“eclectic”**. I hate that word!!! They want to sound trendy or new or something, it just turns me off now. I’m sure it’s a fine word, but it’s been blacklisted by me when every freakin’ restaurant in the world started whoring on it. Enough! **Dude**. When a kid calls 42 yr old me, Dude, that’s just not right. I’m playing frisbee golf today, I bet I get it at least 6 times today. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/104 "2002-09-21T13:02:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Another one I hate: **beverage**. I think it’s a combination of it just sounding dumb, and the first two syllables sounding not unlike the Dutch verb for, errr, cunnilingus. \*\* Funny, we happened to pass by the town of Beveridge the other day. Mr Cazzle commented “Odd name for a town” and I said “Why is that”. I was thinking “Bev Ridge, Beverly Ridge”. Mr Cazzle said “You drink a beverage, you don’t live in it!” and the OTHER meaning hit me like a thunderbolt 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/105 "2002-09-22T13:06:51Z")
**Consecutive** I hate it even more so when moronic television people (newsreaders, sports broadcasters) use it in the following sentence: “…consecutively one after the other…” or “five times in a row one after the other, consecutively…” ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/106 "2002-09-22T17:09:54Z")
Although I am guilty of using this word, I often cringe at the use of : **appropriate** e.g. “That was not appropriate behavior.” “That was not an appropriate thing to say.” “It is not appropriate to stick your pencil into someone else’s eye.” etc. “Not appropriate” has become a euphemism for “undesirable” and it’s just a bunch of psychobabble. ---
**Author:** ![Porus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@Porus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Porus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/107 "2002-09-23T15:22:35Z")
I don’t know if these have been mentioned already Paradigm Proactive In fact most corporate buzz words are annoying ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/108 "2003-01-01T17:28:00Z")
I cringe when my mother-in-law uses the word **supper**. instead of **dinner** But to make it even more annoying, she does not just refer to “supper” as dinner at home, which my parents used to do- she even talks about going out to fancy restsaruant to get “supper”! :mad: For some reason, I also hate: **stocking, stockings** and the phrase: **stockinged feet** for some reason makes me cringe. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/109 "2003-01-01T22:44:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by roadkiller_ > I cant stand words like wrists, wasps, lists and any other words that have that “double-s” sound thats just hard to say… Also “sixths”. Not only can I not say it, I have a hard time _thinking_ the correct pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/110 "2003-01-01T23:21:41Z")
I hate the words “loosen” and “unloosen” in that they mean the same thing but shouldn’t. Damn them to hell… ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/111 "2003-01-01T23:26:49Z")
“luscious” what a nasty word! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/112 "2003-01-02T00:00:50Z")
Can’t stand **malignant** but I guess it does have associations that add to its repugnancy. BTW, _flammable_ is a reall word and just means the same as inflammable. _Druthers_ is also a real word and is part of the dialect I speak. But now that you mention it, I guess I really don’t like it either. I don’t like the word **furl**. **Unfurl** , which means the same, is not as offensive. **Conglomerate** I don’t like. Also, **confluence**. ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/113 "2003-01-04T02:44:10Z")
**Stain** and any tense thereof (stained, staining) What an ugly word. When I first heard of that band _Staind_, I shuddered in repulsion at their name. How could anyone give their group such a nauseating name. (Fortunately I have no desire to listen to their music.) ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/114 "2003-01-04T03:36:13Z")
Edification. Empower. Genre. Fistula. Whenever anyone pronounces the word mature as “ma-toor”. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/115 "2003-01-04T04:04:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ninevah \* > \*\ ***Consecutive** > > I hate it even more so when moronic television people (newsreaders, sports broadcasters) use it in the following sentence: > > “…consecutively one after the other…” > > or > > “five times in a row one after the other, consecutively…” \*\* One time I heard someone on Antiques Roadshow say “This piece of from about circa 1900.” So now I hate the word **circa**. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/116 "2003-01-04T04:06:03Z")
Er, this piece _is_ from about circa 1900. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/117 "2003-01-04T04:46:16Z")
stink. I won’t even say it. I hate to even write it. It is awful and disgusting and I cringe every time I hear it. And it bothers me even more that it seems to be an acceptable alternative for “suck,” which is to me much less offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/118 "2003-01-04T05:38:42Z")
\*\*nubile. obese.\*\* I find both these words highly unpleasant, both to speak and to write. I also don’t like **nuptials**. ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/119 "2003-01-04T08:08:52Z")
**supposedly** , but only when i hear it pronounced “supposably.” **quirky** - just a dumb word, and will always be associated with Ally fucking McBeal in my mind Actually, there are no words that I hate just on principle of how they sound. Even the clumsiest of words can be aurally appealing if weilded correctly. Off topic, I despise my own irreversibly Valley Girl accent. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332/120 "2003-01-04T21:48:21Z")
Mundane. I absolutely can’t stand it. I come here, and there it is: mundane pointless stuff I must share. It’s not the meaning that bugs me, I can dig. It’s the pronunciation. First of all, the word appears to me as the color maroon in my head. Thats one negative association. Also, the horrible combination of a deep “u” and “ane” gets me. I waited a few minutes, read that, and as a result I want you all to know I’m not crazy. Not crazy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-in-the-english-language-you-hate-for-no-reason/126332.md?page=7)