Words You Hate?

[poodicat]

Awesome,hate it with a passion...

[Davethedog]

Resource - When it is used about people, usualy a workforce.

I was once asked if I could spare a "resource" for training. and I have hated it in this context ever since.

[McMouse]

The way the nurse says "Gonorrhea"

[jake-the-peg]

Whom

"Whom is a word invented to make everyone sound like a butler" Calvin Trillage

in 1923, when The Oxford Shorter Dictionary noted "Whom is no longer current in natural colloquial speech.

Despite this it is still loved by grammar Nazis

[anneasquith]

one. ie one did, one does, one should, one would.

[McMouse]

"For Who the Bell Tolls" doesn't have the same ring Jake

[New2Quizzes]

"Going forward..."
What happened to "in the future" and "from now on"?

[jake-the-peg]

That's right McMouse - it's a fossilised phrase

In time it'll be like "The quick and the dead" - we've mostly forgotten that quick used to mean living.

the living and the dead doesn't have the same ring either

[Ankou]

'methinks'

people believe when they use this word that they are exemplifying education and diction, the likes of which samuel johnson would be most proud.

[New2Quizzes]

Whenever anyone says to me "...at the end of the day...", I always try to nip in with "It gets dark", before they have a chance to complete their sentence. Maybe I'm just rude!