Open Discussion:
We all have a word that gets stuck in our mouths, that makes us cringe when someone says it… Don’t we? Or is that just me?
Mine is very common, it’s also Modern Family star Ty Burrell’s least favorite word—”moist”. I hate the word “moist” and saying it makes my throat close a bit, like I’m about to throw up. I don’t know why I hate it, but I do.
And it can’t be a word you hate because of the meaning. Everyone hates the words “Nazi” and “genocide”. It has to be unrelated to meaning, hateable only because of the sound or something otherwise inexplicable.
Need some inspiration? Watch the hilarious Ben Aaron interview the cast of the film Butter, wherein he explains to Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene, Ty Burrell, Rob Corddry, and Olivia Wilde how and why “butter” makes him cringe, and asks them what word sets their teeth on edge. And yes, one of them says, “tushie”.
So, what’s your least favorite word?
About Joanna Schroeder
cute
Husbeast. Ewwwww.
If I say feminist will I be hated?:P
Privilege is probably one of my least favourites, it’s the go to word to dismiss a differing opinion. I hate that more than the word nazi.
Good one. I’ve noticed that anyone who tells me about privilige comes from a richer family than mine.
plethora (and any other word of the month that folks who never had a clue what it meant start repeating. ugh… and also “Absolutely!” and hysterical.
probably “gelassen.” I always have a problem with German participles.
purposefully. It’s long, it’s clumsy …… and it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Peeps (as in “my peeps”)
refuge.
its a good word. But I hate it so much.
My least favourite is ‘misogony”
for Two reasons
1) If a person is a misogynst that means they hate all women, including women I love. This is enough to make me hate this word
2) The word has been co-opted to mean just about anything now. IMHO, it is mostly used as a shutdown word and has come to mean “You don’t agree with something that effects women”
“Utilize”
The word is “use”. adding syllables doesn’t make you sound smarter.
It makes you sound like an idiot.
And by the way, irregardless isn’t a word either.
Ok then – I suck
I use many of these hated words on a regular basis….I need to git me a word stylist
Dilemma. It just doesn’t qualify as a good English word in my book. Maybe “dilemna”…..
WAR!
Ladylike. I hate the word with a passion. It is so coded and loaded that I turn I entertaining shades of purple when it is used.