# Words/Phrases You've Been Meaning to Stop Saying **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453 "2004-06-03T14:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/41 "2004-06-04T03:24:16Z")
> [@Stainz](#): > > **Eh?** and \*\*Hey? \*\* (I’m Canadian and try as I might, these still slip out at the end of some sentences … grrr … I HATE it). > \ > \*\*Wicked \*\* > > Like, seriously, it’s totally wicked how I often I actually say all of these awesome words in one fucking conversation, eh? Until you used wicked incorrectly in your example, I thought maybe you’d gotten our wicked…Eh? has crept across the boarder, you know. Poor NH/ME folks are forced to use it at the end of sentences instead of “huh?”. It would have been wicked neat if you got one of our words, but alas, you got the 80s wicked instead. I’m trying to stop saying Jesus Christ and God Dammit so much. (and “JesusGod!” as reading too many John Irving’s books lead me to say). Not so much because of religious reasons, as the fact that they’re not that creative. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/42 "2004-06-04T03:24:52Z")
I have a habit, when I’m explaining something (which I do a lot of in my job) of ending sentences with “…and things of that nature.” I hate it; it’s trite. It’s okay to use once a week, maybe, but I’ll use it five times in a day. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/43 "2004-06-04T13:08:55Z")
> [@RindaRinda](#): > > “man” - I say this so much that my husband picked up the habit. “Hey, man,” “That’s really cool, man,” “Look, man,” “No way, man,” “maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan…” when things are going wrong, etc., etc. > > For some reason, “horrid” has become another verbal tic. It makes me sound like a prissy schoolmarm, which is weird combined with my incessant swearing - “maaaaan, that’s fucken horrid!” My word is “hideous.” Hideous project. Hideous song. Hideous haircut. Everything’s hideous. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/44 "2004-06-04T14:23:27Z")
**Excellent** **Indeed** I sound like a cross between Mr Burns from the Simpsons and T’ealc from SG1. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/45 "2004-06-04T14:29:40Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > I’ve lately developed a really bad habit of saying **what what?** when I don’t quite hear what someone has said to me. I’m really trying to break the habit - and I have no idea where I picked it up to start with. Kyle’s mom from South Park? And as for “man”, **RindaRinda** …we used to make a rule when playing quarters that whoever said it had to drink. I’d be schnockered in no time. (Though I still maintain that I should not have had to drink the time I identified the woman on TV as Melissa _Man_chester.) ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/46 "2004-06-04T14:39:10Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > When someone thanks me, I say “No problem.” It’s awful! I want to say, “You’re welcome” or “I’m glad to help” or something gracious. Instead I say “No problem.” Gah. I can do you one better. I say “No _prob_”. See? I can’t even be assed to finished the fucking word! What’s worse that _saying_ “No prob”? Sending it via email. I also overuse the word so. “That is SO not going to happen.” “Dude, you are SO not getting laid!” “I am SO there!” Help me. At least I stopped saying “No prob, Bob” and “Okey dokey, Smokey”. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/47 "2004-06-04T15:01:44Z")
**Lordy** or even better **LordyLordy**. I dont’ know where I picked this up; I only started saying it a few years ago. Makes me sound like an old church going Southern lady. Other words: **keen** I sound like a fifties teenager. **bizarro** particularly annoys my brother. **su-PAH** a bizarro homage to a somethat obscure British sitcom (the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) that no one else ever gets so they just think I’m a freak. Like the OP, I’m not reeady to give up **dude** yet… ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/48 "2004-06-04T16:03:15Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > **su-PAH** **Great!** ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/49 "2004-06-04T16:18:54Z")
“Kicking about” For example - “Have you seen my purple top? I can’t find it.” “I’m not sure. It’s kicking about here somewhere.” I picked this up off my friend when we went to Egypt together. That was over a year ago and I’m STILL saying it. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/50 "2004-06-04T16:32:22Z")
Do whut? (said when I didn’t quite catch what someone said to me) I shudder every time I hear that phrase come out of my mouth, and yet, do whut? That, and much. As in bitchy much? Tired much? I’m sure my sister would tell you about a million more, but those are the ones that I’ve noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/51 "2004-06-04T19:02:10Z")
I say “like” way too much. And after reading this thread, I am beginning to think I say “so” too much as well. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453/52 "2004-06-04T23:27:10Z")
> [@Nvme77](#): > > **dude** > > **Oh hell no** > > **I’m Rick James, Bitch!** > > Sating that wayyy too much!! Are you my son? Nick – is that you? 🙂 (You both watch way too much Chappelle Show) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-phrases-youve-been-meaning-to-stop-saying/248453.md?page=2)