What words make you laugh or cringe?

96DiscoSE7

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I have frieds that laugh at the word Porkchop.......
I have others that cringe at the word Panties or Moist ......
I hate when people use the non-word Ir-regardless.....
what gets you?
-Andy
 

Leslie

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Hmmm...... seeing "a lot" written as "alot" bothers me. (I'll blame that on my 10th grade English teacher).

Actually, irregardless is in my dictionary; although it suggests regardless instead, it goes on to add that irregardless can be used to add emphasis. I don't use it, but it doesn't get under my skin.

Inflammable is the one that bothers me (although it is supposedly older than flammable... odd, eh?)

-L
 

DiscoJen

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I can't stand it when people say Flustrated.

And since I work in the hood, the phrase I really can't stand is "can I ax you a question" or "can I hol dat."
 
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KEJ

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"Medium strip" instead of median strip. And all the words already mentioned above! Oh, and the dangling preposition, as in, "Where do you live AT"!

So many, so, so, many...

KJ ;)
 

stevenr

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One more. YUNS! I'd say is that correct spelling but it isn't even a real God Damned word!

For those of you unfamiliar it is an even more red neck version of y'all.
 
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syoung

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The "windshield factor" on cold windy days...

Co-conspirator bugs me too... one can't conspire by oneself. They're all conspirators, not co-conspirators.
 

Mike_Rupp

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KEJ said:
"Medium strip" instead of median strip. And all the words already mentioned above! Oh, and the dangling preposition, as in, "Where do you live AT"!

So many, so, so, many...

KJ ;)

In the Chicagoland area, it is required to have dangling propositions.
:D

I can't stand it when people say, "between you and I". It drives me out of my mind.
 

Matt Taylor

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I hate it when men talk like those Friend's people. You know what I mean? Like to hear a guy say, "I am so not going to your party," or something like that.

If you're guy and you're going to talk like that, why not just wear a sign around your neck indicating that you are a tool of pop culture brainwashing who has been completely emascualted by the hipness of our metrosexual culture.

It's not so bad when chicks talk like that, but I hate hearing men do it.

Chandler Bing, Ross, and Joey are a bunch of non-threatening ninnies engineered to appease women viewers -- emulate those guys at your own peril. We'll have a nation of men with small nuts --- like France. :)
 
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syoung

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The word "myself" has only one application- It is only to refer to yourself as in alone. "I ate the whole thing by myself" and not "Myself, Bob and Doug drank all the beer" or "Bob, Doug and myself drank all the beer"
 

road1will

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The Coke thing is one thing I dont understand. I was born in the south and have lived here all my life, yet me (and all my friends) only calls actual coke "Coke". None of us call all soft drinks "coke".