# Words you dont use cos you dont like them **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100 "2004-04-03T21:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/21 "2004-04-04T10:54:23Z")
“Awesome” Thank god I don’t hear it as often as I used to but still extremely annoying. Never used it and never will. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/22 "2004-04-04T11:19:06Z")
**cos** , unless talking about the variety of lettuce. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/23 "2004-04-04T19:03:48Z")
“asked” cuz I can’t pronounce it. Don’t know why. it comes out “assed.” ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/24 "2004-04-04T19:17:19Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > “asked” cuz I can’t pronounce it. Don’t know why. it comes out “assed.” And on that note, unless I’m speaking french I’m not a big fan of **dont**. 😉 Automatic roll-eyes for anyone who describes a film or novel as **poignant**. Whenever I went on field trips in elementary school, my teachers would usually ask us what we thought about the experience afterwards. I’d generally say “interesting and informative” - sufficiently vague, but sounds like I paid attention. **Poignant** is the grown-up version of those two words. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/25 "2004-04-04T21:04:59Z")
**particularly** - way too many syllables, say it out loud to yourself and see if I’m not right. **probably** is a close second. **bling bling** - mostly because I’ve never heard it used in a sentence where the speaker sounded remotely intelligent. _“I was all like”_ or _“I went…”_ - No you weren’t _like_ and you didn’t _go_, you **said**. You sound like a 12-year-old moron when you talk like that. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/26 "2004-04-04T21:49:28Z")
“Cliche” for the same reason you don’t like “genre”. I can’t say it without getting the image of a beret-wearing, cigarette-smoking urbanite, scoffing at whatever item is in question and using the phrase “Oh, \_\_\_\_? How cliche…” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/27 "2004-04-04T22:48:38Z")
Aurora, simply because I (think I) sound like an idiot when I try to say it. Doesn’t roll right of my tongue… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/28 "2004-04-04T23:32:53Z")
“Gumption”. I had an evil grandmother who used to rail about how I, and my brothers and sister, had none. “Dungarees”. She also objected to the wearing of blue jeans if one was not actually working in the construction industry or roping horses. “Sucks”, as in “Hey, didn’t _Showgirls_ suck?” First of all, using the word in this way all but says: “I dislike something but I haven’t nearly enough brain power to describe what it is about it that I don’t like”. Secondly, what is sucking on what exactly, and why is that bad? ---
**Author:** ![rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rose)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/29 "2004-04-04T23:44:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Aurora, simply because I (think I) sound like an idiot when I try to say it. Doesn’t roll right of my tongue… - **TellMeI’mNotCrazy** Ha… yeah, that one’s not fun to say. I’ll be trying to say something about the Aurora Borealis, which is supposed to be this beautiful thing… but it comes out terrible. “Uh rah ruh Borealis”… yeah… I also hate plethora; to me it’s one of those words that sound unnecessarily pretentious. Like ‘effectively’, when people use it to mean ‘pretty much’. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/30 "2004-04-04T23:49:00Z")
Utilize. I hate the word utilize in any form or fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Mumboo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mumboo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mumboo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/31 "2004-04-05T00:31:57Z")
\*\*Functionality[/Bmakes me want to scream. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/32 "2004-04-05T00:43:00Z")
> [@fluffball86](#): > > I don’t mind “Shut Up”, it’s the quickest way to get someone stop talking when you are ignoring them. Ex when you are watching the news, sshhh doesn’t always convey the messiage that the other person should stop talking immediately. Shut up on the other hand. > > The word that I don’t like is “Hanged” Ex: The prisoner was hanged by the neck until dead. I hear the word hanged a lot, it should be hung, the prisoner was hung by the neck until dead. The only reason people use Hanged is because it sounds worse than hung. Not true. “Hanged” is just a quirk in the grammar of an irregular verb. Probably all transitive uses (hanging something up, or someone) once used this form for the past tense. If you say someone was “hung”, meaning executed, that just sounds really odd to me. German is similar: the basic verb “hangen”=“to hang” is irregular, but the transitive verb “verhangen” is regular. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/33 "2004-04-05T00:45:45Z")
Word I hate: ‘holistic’ Why: It is used too often by consultants, charlatans and various other snake oil salesmen. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/34 "2004-04-05T00:49:25Z")
“You need to” meaning “I need you to, and I am in charge”, or “the rules of this establishment require that you”. OTOH I don’t mind the phrase when it really is the person being addressed who is doing the needing. “Crock”, as in "it’s a crock [of s\*\*\*]. “Crap”. For some reason, I find this more offensive than s\*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/35 "2004-04-05T00:50:10Z")
And another word that I loathe : ‘like’- when it is used by brain dead teenagers, like in every sentence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/36 "2004-04-05T00:52:44Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > And another word that I loathe : ‘like’- when it is used by brain dead teenagers, like in every sentence. > > 😃 Like, oh my god, me too! 😉 (Couldn’t resist) ---
**Author:** ![fluffball86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fluffball86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffball86)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/37 "2004-04-05T00:54:09Z")
I’ll add another one: In dubitabily. You hear it on cartoon shows, a wise owl always says it when he/she means of course. I absolutely cannot pronounce it, unless In due bit a bit a bly, is the correct pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/38 "2004-04-05T00:56:41Z")
> [@fluffball86](#): > > I’ll add another one: > In dubitabily. > > You hear it on cartoon shows, a wise owl always says it when he/she means of course. I absolutely cannot pronounce it, unless In due bit a bit a bly, is the correct pronunciation. Indubitably? In-doo-bit-uh-blee. Yeah, I always struggle with it too :o ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/39 "2004-04-05T01:34:59Z")
> [@\_Deva\_](#): > > Moist. Say it real slow… > > Panties. Those are the exact two I was going to mention. I hate the word “Belly” too. I can somewhat tolerate it when it refers to a pregnant woman, but I still don’t really like it. On that note, I hate all of the cutesy terms for pregnancy. I wanted to kick people who refered to me as “preggo,” “preggie” or “preggers.” ---
**Author:** ![arjee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@arjee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arjee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/40 "2004-04-05T03:47:51Z")
In regards to making a selection… I don’t say “pick;” I say, “choose.” I guess it’s just because “pick” sounds harsh and reminds me of nose picking, scab picking, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100.md?page=3)