# Words you really hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555 "2004-05-22T19:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/61 "2004-05-24T18:39:04Z")
> [@Tiggrkitty](#): > > **aight** > > This is not a word people. Using this instead of typing out “alright” as a response, does not make you look cool, it just makes you look lazy. I take it you’re not a fan of Ali G! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/62 "2004-05-24T18:46:17Z")
> [@nocturnal\_tick](#): > > I take it you’re not a fan of Ali G! 😛 Nor a fan of the Simpson’s. 😃 A verbal aight doesn’t bother me, but seeing it typed out that way just drives me bonkers! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/63 "2004-05-24T18:47:29Z")
ameno… amemo… amenome? anenome? Argh. It’s **anemone**. For some reason my brain and mouth do not work together on that word. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/64 "2004-05-24T18:58:05Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > Argh. It’s **anemone**. For some reason my brain and mouth do not work together on that word. I used to hate this word too, but finally, FINALLY, I was able to say it consistently right. Except, as your post has just shown me (confirmed by a check of m-w, unfortunately) that I’ve been saying it consistently wrong all this time. I’ve been saying Anenome. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/65 "2004-05-24T19:01:47Z")
I cannot stand the way “drawer” sounds. Do you say _droor_ (like “roar” with a D)? Or is it _draw-er_ (like “one who draws”)? Most folks say _droor_, and I just think it sounds horrid. Actually, I don’t like words that start with “dr” in general. I’m really glad my mother-in-law named my hubby Firstname Andrew instead of Andrew Firstname. 'Cause he would’ve called himself “Drew” instead of “Andy.” And I wouldn’t have liked that. 🙂 I also despise it when the idiots in my office use “as per.” Which is constantly. Oh, and add me to the list of those who want to **mangle** those who can’t use “myself” properly! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/66 "2004-05-24T19:17:23Z")
I don’t have a pet hate for any real words, but I do have several hated mangled ones. Some that come to mind quickly are: “libarry” -\> library “mewrah” -\> mirror (every time VunderWife uses this, a fight starts because I correct her, and she hates it) “polk weed” -\> poke weed (an edible weed in the SE US) ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/67 "2004-05-24T19:20:52Z")
palpable. “Can I put my palps on it.” “Sure can. It’s palpable”. (not to thread piss, but we’ve been here before, but its fun to revisit. I recall saying the exact same thing I just said in the last thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/68 "2004-05-24T19:33:42Z")
When my sister decided to get serious about her diet some years back, she drove me nuts with her constant discussions of _carbs_. Of course, now that medical science has admitted they can’t disprove the claims of the late Dr. Atkins, I hear it 50 times a day. I suppose I’d better get used to it. Whenever I hear someone talk about being _disorientated_, I ask if that means they’ve been _occidentalized_. _Racist_ - The word is so overused, and at the same time, so damaging. _Decimate_ - Actually, I don’t really hate the word, just the fact that people misuse it so often. It means to kill or destroy one-tenth of something, from the Roman punishment used on cowardly soldiers. Decimation means that the men were separated into groups of ten, each member of which drew lots. Whoever drew the marked lot was clubbed to death by his nine companions. Decimation does not mean the same as annihilation, obliteration, razing, or any other synonym for complete devastation. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/69 "2004-05-24T20:27:19Z")
> [@Earl Snaek Hips-Tucker](#): > > Uh-huh. . . WHY YOU GOTTA WASTE MY FLAVA?!? I still hate that word. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/70 "2004-05-24T21:26:45Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > WHY YOU GOTTA WASTE MY **FLAVA**?!? I couldn’t think of a word to add to this thread, until… Oh yeah, “flava”! > [@](#): > > aight > > This is not a word people. Using this instead of typing out “alright” as a response, does not make you look cool, it just makes you look lazy. It’s lazy on top of incorrect. “Alright” isn’t a word either. It’s “[all right](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=all%20right).” ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/71 "2004-05-24T21:39:15Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I used to hate this word too, but finally, FINALLY, I was able to say it consistently right. > > Except, as your post has just shown me (confirmed by a check of m-w, unfortunately) that I’ve been saying it consistently wrong all this time. > > I’ve been saying Anenome. :smack: Exactly! Me too. I kept thinking “Aah I finally have it! Anenome!” Only to find out I was again, wrong. So now I call them “those things that aren’t sea sponges but look like them.” Not that they come up in conversation often, but… ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/72 "2004-05-24T22:01:57Z")
Angry. For some reason, the word angry makes me think of sausage. Don’t ask me why. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/73 "2004-05-24T22:03:34Z")
Oh, yeah. I hate the word Eureka, too. When I was a little kid, I couldn’t tell the difference between that and urethera (sp?), so I would alternate yelling “Eureka! I’ve found it !” and “Urethera! I’ve found it.” It was rather embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/74 "2004-05-24T23:16:21Z")
It is my opinion that the word **squat** is the ugliest word in the English language. Others may disagree, but surely we can agree that squat is one ugly word! ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/75 "2004-05-25T01:31:37Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > _Decimate_ - Actually, I don’t really hate the word, just the fact that people misuse it so often. It means to kill or destroy one-tenth of something, from the Roman punishment used on cowardly soldiers. Decimation means that the men were separated into groups of ten, each member of which drew lots. Whoever drew the marked lot was clubbed to death by his nine companions. Decimation does not mean the same as annihilation, obliteration, razing, or any other synonym for complete devastation. Which is why we never, ever put classicists in charge of English dictionaries! 😃 Seriously, the fact that a word evolves from an original meaning to one that’s quite different is hardly surprising. In this case, when almost no-one knows the original, one is best just letting go. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/76 "2004-05-25T02:16:48Z")
**Jenaroph** : M-W says alright is all right. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/77 "2004-05-25T02:22:57Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > It is my opinion that the word **squat** is the ugliest word in the English language. Nay. 'Tis “scrotum.” Squat at least has a functional ugliness. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/78 "2004-05-25T02:39:02Z")
Ditto on moist, panties, scrotum and squat, and add to the list: pee poo/poop **Especially** in medical settings. The nurse at my gynecologist’s office insists upon telling patients “Now we need you to pee in the cup, sweetie.” Dear lord. I’m 43 years old, lady. Not only am I not dumb, I’ve been visiting doctors for years. I think I can wrap my brain around what’s needed when I’m handed a jar and asked for a urine sample, or told to go urinate. And Mr. TeaElle took great delight in ignoring or correcting any medical personnel who inquired as to whether or not he had “pooed” or “pooped” when he was recently hospitalized with a gastrointestinal issue. We were perusing his chart one day and noted that two different nursing notes said that he was “hostile” or had a “bad attitude toward medical questions” because he insisted that people whose badges indicated bachelor’s degrees in nursing try asking him about “bowel movements” rather than poop. Unfrickinbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/79 "2004-05-25T02:49:44Z")
Does this mean that I should stop asking women to squat on my scrotum? **Rectilinear** when said aloud has a suspiciously nasty undertone. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-really-hate/246555/80 "2004-05-25T02:53:00Z")
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