# Words that make me cringe **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205 "2001-06-26T14:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/81 "2001-06-30T20:26:57Z")
Oh, and Mobius? You _do_ realize that I must now shoot you for posting that horrific paragraph, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mobius74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@Mobius74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mobius74)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/82 "2001-06-30T20:39:11Z")
Sorry, Elenfair. I prolly should of left well enough alone. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/83 "2001-07-01T00:37:28Z")
I once received a phone message from a young woman checking on a rumor that she had won a prize in a writing contest. She said, “I just wanted to **verify** that it was an **actuality**.” Why, why, why couldn’t she have just asked if she’d won a prize? I ain’t impressed by none o’ them big words. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/84 "2001-07-01T00:50:32Z")
GAAAAH! ::: pulling out lovely red hair ::::: :::: rocking self :::: Make it stop, make it stop… ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/85 "2001-07-01T01:30:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferggie \* > \*\* > And if anybody uses “entitled” as in “the book is entitled ‘Bunnicula,’” they had better watch out, because my boss is likely to strangle them. \*\* He (or she) may not like it, but it _is_ proper usage. [http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=entitled](http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=entitled) > [@](#): > > Entitle \En\*ti"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entitled; p. pr. & vb. n. Entitling.] [OF. entituler, F. intituler, LL. intitulare, fr. L. in + titulus title. See Title, and cf. Intitule.] 1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; **to call; as, to entitle a book “Commentaries;”** to entitle a man “Honorable.” > > [sub]Source: _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc._[/sub] The one that makes me cringe as if fingernails were being slowly scratched down a chalk board is **all the sudden**. Oh G-d! It hurts just _typing_ that. ::shudder:: People, it’s **all of a sudden**. Reading posts here where people confuse ‘ **then** ’ and ‘ **than** ’ makes me want to gouge my eyes out. * * * Jeg elsker dig, Thomas ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/86 "2001-07-01T01:46:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. > > It’s “paid”, dammit, not “payed”. > > \*\* I had a boss back when I did collection work who always wrote **Paided in Full**. I knew it was wrong, but I also knew I’d been working for him too long when I caught myself writing it. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/87 "2001-07-01T01:53:01Z")
I try to make a point of always using proper English, as I am a southerner and I really don’t like having some yankee correct me. 🙂 But, I do tend to refer to the band Smashing Pumpkins as “Smashin Punkins”, basically to piss off my mother. She knew I loved the band, and ventured into a local music store to buy the cd for me. When she asked the body-jewelry bedecked clerk for the Smashin Punkins cd, the clerk busted out laughing and showed it to her. She has not bought me a single cd since then. I cannot stand it when my father says “warsh your dungarees” instead of “wash your jeans”. It just gets on my last nerve. But I guess that’s more of an accent problem than incorrect English. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/88 "2001-07-01T03:05:23Z")
**Solution** : “This car is your ideal transportation solution!” **APR** : “And we offer special APR financing!” ---
**Author:** ![Jenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205/89 "2001-07-01T04:28:03Z")
Tump (ed) as in… the boat is gunna tump over…eeek Funny things I heard while waiting tables… 1. If it’s any constellation to you… 2. I didn’t see the ticket in the kitchen and I consumed that he already had his food. 3. “Did he bust those tables yet” “He busted them earlier” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-make-me-cringe/70205.md?page=4)