# Words you Hate but have resigned yourself they are here to stay **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311 "2016-06-02T15:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/21 "2016-06-02T17:05:04Z")
I don’t know if this counts, because it involves alternate spellings rather than made-up or misused words, but something that still really grates on me is the gimmicky, simplified spelling of words like through (“thru,”) doughnut (“donut,”) light (“lite,”) etc. But that definitely is something I hate, but have resigned myself to, because even educated people do it and don’t see anything wrong with it. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/22 "2016-06-02T17:07:26Z")
[ul] [li]Sando[/li][/ul] There is no O in sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/23 "2016-06-02T17:07:29Z")
Incentivized. Um, motivated? ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/24 "2016-06-02T17:08:54Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Another thread has just reminded me “bleu cheese” It’s blue cheese in English (or presumably fromage bleu in French): bleu cheese is a hybrid abomination. Along the same lines, we can lament the by-now ubiquitous replacement of “cream” with “creme,” and “grill” with “grille.” Oh, and other thing I definitely still hate but have resigned myself to is the real-estate industry’s successful complete replacement of the word “house” with “home,” to the extent that they now even have people talking about “townhomes” and “rowhomes.” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/25 "2016-06-02T17:11:26Z")
“Def” “Whatev” “Baby Mama” and “Baby Daddy” ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/26 "2016-06-02T17:12:29Z")
A thing I’ve mentioned before on the Dope – and which is liable to set me at odds with most participants hereon; however – “cromulent”. I know the story of its _Simpsons_ origin: my dislike of it is, likely, informed by my being not much of a fan of _The Simpsons_. I reckon the series often quite witty and funny: but as to how it has come to be reckoned by countless millions of people, deathless art and a subject for passionate, unlimited devotion and a source of “quotable quotes” to put the Bible and Shakespeare completely in the shade – I just don’t get it. And “cromulent” – hugely beloved, it seems, throughout the Net community: something about the word and the whole situation, just makes me cringe. In my view, it’s not even as though it fills a gap which was self-evidently there in the language: it’s just a goofy synonym for “valid” – I’m convinced that it would not have caught on, if it hadn’t originated with the bloody Simpsons. I’m reluctantly resigned that “cromulent” is here to stay; but no way in hell, will I ever use the sodding word. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/27 "2016-06-02T17:12:41Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > … Oh, and other thing I definitely still hate but have resigned myself to is the real-estate industry’s successful complete replacement of the word “house” with “home,” to the extent that they now even have people talking about “townhomes” and “rowhomes.” Don’t forget “forever home”. Gack. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/28 "2016-06-02T17:13:20Z")
The word “cover” to refer to a new version of an old song. There’s a difference between a cover and a remake: a cover version is put out at close to the same time as (and usually in competition with) the original. [http://www.history-of-rock.com/cover\_remake.htm](http://www.history-of-rock.com/cover_remake.htm) [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19960827&id=ZCYqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AS4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6780,1243972&hl=en](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19960827&id=ZCYqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AS4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6780,1243972&hl=en) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/29 "2016-06-02T17:17:55Z")
The next person who says “like” 20 times in a 30-word run-on sentence is going to get pistol-whipped. I hate fillers in general, and I am acutely aware of my own verbal tics, so when I am listening to someone like that it’s almost unbearable. How do those people get any sort of professional job when they speak like 16-year-old girls who never grew up? ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/30 "2016-06-02T17:18:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **Orientate**. It’s just a longer word for “Orient”. I have some sympathy for “orientate”. Sorting out one’s geographical whereabouts is – rightly, per the language specialists – “orientation”; yet – again per those worthies – when one performs that act, one “orients”, not “orientates”, oneself. I can’t help feeling that logically, this does not obviously add up; though it is very much for sure, that linguistic usage and logic often have little to do with each other. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/31 "2016-06-02T17:29:24Z")
Share meaning tell. Feel meaning think. Impact and its variants instead of effect, affect, and their variants. Podium instead of lectern. People pronouncing the N in kiln. Yep, the dictionary I had in grade school said it was silent, so there! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/32 "2016-06-02T17:30:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sangahyando] And “cromulent” – hugely beloved, it seems, throughout the Net community: something about the word and the whole situation, just makes me cringe. In my view, it’s not even as though it fills a gap which was self-evidently there in the language: it’s just a goofy synonym for “valid” – I’m convinced that it would not have caught on, if it hadn’t originated with the bloody Simpsons. [/QUOTE] See, “Cromulent” does not exactly mean “valid” to me; it has a rather distinct meaning, more along the lines of “both valid and appropriate in the manner used.” Whether it will stick I am not sure, though. I have never heard a human being say it aloud, and it may wither away when “The Simpsons” is gone. It would not be acceptable in professional or academic writing. Being in a large city, we now have many restaurants that call themselves “Gastro pubs,” or “Gastropubs” - there is no agreement on the styling. It’s a dreadful word. “Gastropub” sounds like a parasite of the digestive system, something your doctor would diagnose you as having after sending a sample of your stool to a lab, and then he’d have a burly nurse give you a medicated enema and tell you not to eat sushi from a roadside stand in Tulsa anymore unless you want to get another infestation of gastropubs. It’s not just ugly, it’s pointless. Call it a restaurant, a bar, or a pub. I know what those things are. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/33 "2016-06-02T17:35:52Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > [ul] > [li]Sando[/li][/ul] > > There is no O in sandwich. Agreed. The correct shorthand form is “sandy”. As in: “You wanna pea-bo jelly sandy?” ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/34 "2016-06-02T17:36:58Z")
“colorway” when referring to the color of a garment. ie, This blouse comes in a blue colorway. Colorway does not refer to a single item in a single color. Yes, colorway is a word, but it describes something more akin to a color scheme. Correct usage would be “This blouse comes in a variety of colorways.” I think people feel that ‘colorway’ is fancier than mere ‘color’, but it grinds my mental gears to hear it used incorrectly so often when speaking of fashion. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/35 "2016-06-02T17:37:34Z")
The French word crème denotes not only dairy cream, but also other thick liquids such as sweet and savory custards, which are normally made with milk, not cream. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/36 "2016-06-02T17:41:32Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > “Hoover” when referring to a vacuum cleaner not made by the Hoover corporation. This one has been going on since before I was born though so the fight was lost even before I was aware there was something to be annoyed about. Can I get you an aspirin? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/37 "2016-06-02T17:47:47Z")
So many annoying words. Where to start? “Vape”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/38 "2016-06-02T17:48:48Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Agreed. The correct shorthand form is “sandy”. As in: > > “You wanna pea-bo jelly sandy?” > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Agreed. The correct shorthand form is “sandy”. As in: > > “You wanna pea-bo jelly sandy?” Nope, it’s “sammy,” as in short for “sammich.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/39 "2016-06-02T17:59:01Z")
[Let my friend, here, say it for me](https://youtu.be/JU-OycAb_Lg?t=8)–I, I just can’t: ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311/40 "2016-06-02T18:00:42Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Share meaning tell. > Feel meaning think. > Impact and its variants instead of effect, affect, and their variants. > Podium instead of lectern. > > People pronouncing the N in kiln. Yep, the dictionary I had in grade school said it was silent, so there! “Podium instead of lectern” is sheer pedantry, which is exactly why I VIGOROUSLY AND LOUDLY DEMAND THE PROPER USAGE OF “LECTERN” ON EVERY OCCASION, AND THEY, WHETHER THEY WILL HEAR, OR WHETHER THEY WILL FOREBEAR…YET SHALL KNOW THAT THERE HATH BEEN A PROPHET AMONG THEM! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-hate-but-have-resigned-yourself-they-are-here-to-stay/756311.md?page=3)