What word do you hate?

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Everyone has a word or words that really gets under the skin. What's yours?

Tags: language, linguistics, word, wordplay, words


 
       
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Nigger

Leader! Most 1st Place Votes
What astounding ignorance.
(I live in the south.)

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Irregardless

Top Five Percent
It's not a word!

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Pimpin

If you can really call it a word. What a ridiculous word.

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Proactive

A word invented by idiots who don't know what they actually want people to do. The literal translation is "Do something. If I don'... [show more]

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Synergy

especially when paired with leverage

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Anywho

It really drives me insane.

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15  votes
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Taxes

(No description provided)

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11  votes
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_cunt

A word that is totaly over used and crass!

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10  votes
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Hate

I hate the word hate!

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8  votes
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Like

Like, you know, I'm all like, well, you know, like totally like etc......

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Doable

gross. Makes me cringe.

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Fo-shizzle-my-nizzle

Word should never be spoken.

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Ointment

The word does not sound as if it could cure anything. It sounds more like the sound a constipated pig might make.

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TWAT

It's runner up to C U Next Tuesday

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Doo-Doo

(No description provided)

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Bitch

Can't bring myself to say it

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C U Next Tuesday

(No description provided)

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Dude

people say it too much

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Heimlich

(No description provided)

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Moist

... and delicious are two words that should not go together.

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Boss

(No description provided)

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Snap

Enough already!

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Asshattery

And variations thereof.

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Sputum

I feel equally strong about the term phlegm.

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Well, i don't like to hate, but: snot. And s'not. Ya know?

although it seems to be archaic, there a a few stawlwart souls still using it.

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Niche

(No description provided)

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Orientated

As in, "I had to get orientated to my new surroundings." It's wrong sucker.

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Chagrin

I had never seen that word before and I asked someone "How is this word pronounced? 'Cha'-grin?" They made so much fun of me, it i... [show more]

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HappyThawts 2 years ago

I mean it is "now" my nickname. bah!

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NoahVail 2 years ago

See also "What is the most irritating example of corporate-speak"
http://www.grupthink.com/topic/109

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This topic was started by jody jody has 9,676 Grupie Points on May 12th, 2006. 120 grupies have voted on one or more of the 39 answers.

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