“Showrunner.”
Why we need this neologism when the perfectly cromulent term “producer” is available makes me all stabby.
Wherefore?
carbs
I hate “stabby”. 
But the producer is not always the showrunner. And there can be many “producers”
gee…uh, thanks a lot. Gonna put that on your resume?
Good point. I still hate it.
I just read another one. I hate “alum” used instead of alumnus or alumna. Alum is aluminum potassium sulfate, a chemical used in pickles.
This British usage is exactly mirrored in the US use of “jail”. Typically, you aren’t in A jail, you are “in jail”.
“versing” - Kids say “We are versing the Thundercats today” instead of saying “We are playing against the Thundercats today”. Also used in the past tense: “We versed the Thundercats today”. It’s grating enough to hear kids say it but I heard an adult say it last weekend.
“X out of it” - People say “X out of that window” instead of “Close that window” when they are referring to closing a window on a computer screen or tablet. This one isn’t limited to kids. I’ve heard it from several adults.
Non-starter
I’m another “dude” hater. It always sound slackerishly contemptuous.
Dude!:eek:
Baby mommy/baby daddy.
Abso-fraggin-lutely hate these terms.
Absquatulate means to take off with something, usually money or valuables. It’s often used in cases where the absquatulator was forced to leave (e.g. a dictator leaving with full suitcases), but not always.
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Adorkable
Kitteh
“Vacation” is not from a Latin word for freedom or absence of something; it’s from vacare, a Latin word meaning to empty, or to empty out.
“Vacation” entered the English language (from French) in the fourteenth century; it meant having no responsibilities, or being relieved from particular responsibilities. In that sense, any time that you aren’t required to attend to the duties of your office or employment is a “vacation”; no travel need be involved. Ironically, it also had a secondary meaning (from the fifteenth century) of discharging yourself from all cares and responsibilities except some particular duty, so that you would be free to concentrate all your time and efforts on your duties. So for a time the word had two almost diametrically-opposed senses. The sense of being free from all distractions so as to concentrate on performing your duties became obsolete in the seventeenth century.
“Vacation” in the sense of a set time during which normal activity is suspended dates from the fifteenth century; it referred initially to institutions like universities, inns of court and so forth. In fact it had a double sense; the members of the institution had a vacation in the sense that they didn’t have to attend to their usual duties, but the institution had a vacation in the sense that it physically emptied out; university students would go home, and lawyers would not attend their chambers.
“Vacation” meaning a period of recreational travel only turns up in the late nineteenth century - which is probably when leisure travel gets going - and then only in the US.
This last sense has never had much traction in other varieties of English, where “holiday” is still the dominant term. Originally “holiday” referred to a religious festival, obviously, but from the fifteenth century the term was used for non-working days (or longer periods) regardless of whether the occasion was religious in nature or not. Again, the sense of recreational travel doesn’t emerge until the late nineteenth century. (Previously, people might be said, e.g., to “spend their holidays in France”, but if they had stayed at home they would have spent their holidays at home. Either way, they would have been said to be “on holiday”.)
“Unique means one of a kind; something can’t be very unique.”
–President Jed Bartlet, The West Wing
Heh. I totally agree with you, but good luck setting limits on a “pet peeve” discussion thread. There have been countless threads like this where the OP specifies some very specific limits on the topic that invariably wind up getting ignored. The most recent example was the thread “SHOCKER! Things work differently in the movies.” where the OP wanted to discuss movies’ unrealistic depiction of how machines and devices work, but people just started listing every little silly movie trope they’ve ever noticed, regardless of whether it had anything to do with machines or devices.
In fact, one might say this is a phenomenon I hate, but have resigned myself it is here to stay!