Hate to be the first but, “druthers” really isn’t a word. In Dollywood maybe but…
For the past 15 years the word “Like” has come to get under my skin when used 5 times in a sentence. “I was like…”
Closure and much.
Closure because more often than not, it pertains to something bad or sad that happened to a person.
And much, because it just sounds weird to say.
Quasi
My SO was reading over my shoulder as I looked at this thread, and all she said was “macaroni.”
I concur.
-Dirty
Therefore.
I don’t know why. I guess something about it just makes me want to scream, because I mostly hear/read it when people are using faulty logic. It’s just annoying.
It’s too bad I can’t be the first to bring up hubby because that word fills me with rage at the speaker when uttered. No, I’m not exaggerating.
I also dislike probe and uncle
Oh, and Kn*ckers–I’ve always thought rupture was one of the nicest words in the English language (not the definition, of course, just the way it sounds).
I am physically unable to pronounce the word “rural.” Also, “Furor.” I’ve pulled muscles trying.
Other words I dislike:
Panties
Meal (it’s so…grinding. oops, there’s another one!)
Grinding
Groin
Prepare
Squat
Booties
Dilly dally
That word makes me want to gouge out my own eye balls and eat them with mint jelly.
Probably.
Feet.
The word makes me cringe.
My daughter hates jumbo and Peabody.
And plump.
via and per.
Affadavit. I can’t pronounce it properly without getting the vowel sounds mixed up.
"Humongous" makes me want to commit murder! :mad:
People who say “Umpteen” should be forced to write it on a chalkboard 1000 times.
I hate “druthers” too – but I have a reason. There used to be a fast-food chain in Kentucky called Burger Queen, and it changed its name to Druthers, which I considered to be vastly inferior. Terrible mascot, too, named Andy Dandytail.
That kind of reminds me of flammable/inflammable. Too many stupid people thought “inflammable” meant “non-flammable,” so now all hazardous materials documentation and everything else just uses the word “flammable.” If the stupids can’t conform, we must relent and conform ourselves - to their idiocy. What a crock.
** Get, got, gotten **. Horrible, horrible, and doubly horrible.
And ** huh? ** is disgusting. It’s not a word; it’s a sound you make when you are trying to vomit.
juxtapostion, flabbergasted, I do like the word disgruntled, but why can’t a person be gruntled.
EXAMPLE;
“Hey Jim how are you today?”
“Gruntled! Yourself?”
Perfect.
Sandwich.
For some reason, I’ve always spelled it “Sandwitch.”
This drives my wife bonkers.
Another vote for “hubby”.
I also hate “gal”, and even worse, “galpal”.
Narrator. I HATE this word. I keep trying to add another syllable into it, so my mind thinks “narrerator”. And the actual pronunciation spends too much time on the RR, and I detest the sound of it.
Hate hate hate hate.
And add another vote for rural.
Mucus makes me queasy. Oh, and queasy.