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What are some normal words that you can't stand?

Asked by WillWorkForChocolate (23163points) June 27th, 2013
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(I’m not talking about dirty words or racial slurs.) There are words, for some people, that remind them of something else, be it rational or not. Are there any words that you can’t stand, and for what reason?

I don’t like “dessicated.” For some reason, it makes me think of “decayed.” My mom keeps referring to dessicated coconut and it creeps me out.

I’ve also never liked the word “vagina.” I don’t know why, but when I say or hear the word, it sounds like something slimy and disgusting. <shudder>

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SuperMouse's avatar

I cannot stand the word putt because I just don’t like the way it sounds. I feel the same way about nib and nub. Yuck!

tedibear's avatar

I know I have a couple, but of course I can’t recall them! However, I have a friend who hates the words “stub” and “infirmary.”

rockfan's avatar

Transparency
Superfluous
Plethora
Digress
Druthers

bookish1's avatar

Nipple (seriously, it sounds so gross. Why don’t we have a better word for this??)
Sleepy (double e’s creep freak me out.)
The V word. It means ‘sheath’ in Latin. Patriarchy is inscribed into our language.

ucme's avatar

Ointment, sounds like someone made it up just to be annoying.
Turquoise, stop it, just stop it.
Yoghurt, especially how Americans say it…“yoh-git”

bookish1's avatar

@ucme: You must have been discussing dairy with a Bostonian…
At least we don’t say it like the French. Yaourt. I still sort of have no idea how to pronounce that. Too many vowels dammit!!

ucme's avatar

@bookish1 Too much Family Guy I guess, still a bad word whatever the accent.

gailcalled's avatar

“Awesome” and “suck” unless you are 13 or under.

Turquoise is my birthstone. It seems just as acceptable a word as malachite, peridot, hematite, tourmaline or obsidian.

Standard pronunciation, Yank or not, is tur-kwoyze.

ucme's avatar

I say tur-koys, maybe you yanks say tur-kwa, either way it’s a ridiculous word.

picante's avatar

Bowel
Fungus
Myriad

If you have myriad fungi in your bowels, please don’t tell me.

livelaughlove21's avatar

Puss
Mucus
Puke
Pussy (particularly as an insult)
Chunks
Discharge

janbb's avatar

Smegma

ucme's avatar

Affidavit

Sunny2's avatar

I can’t say suck (except as it refers to a straw or a hard candy) or puke.

bookish1's avatar

@ucme: How do the British say that? I’m not even sure how Americans are supposed to say it…

Pachy's avatar

I share dislike for many of the words mentioned above, plus terrorist and explosion, two words that give me the chills.

fluthernutter's avatar

The only one thus far that bothers me is pussy in the context mentioned.

Actually, I’m actually quite fond of druthers. It makes me want to throw back a pint while doing a Monty Python dance.

I don’t like the word pulchritude. I feel like some linguist just made it up for the SATs. The word is useless and adds no more depth or nuance to the English language that the word beauty hasn’t already covered.

augustlan's avatar

Panties
Britches
The name “Mitch”

All related. He was my abuser, and used the words “panties” and “britches” for “underwear” and “pants”, respectively. Can’t bear to hear any of them.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@bookish1 I pronounce it “aff-i-dave-it” with the emphasis on dave.

Dammit, Auggie, I wanna kick his ass.

@gailcalled I knew you would chime in with your hatred of awesome!

augustlan's avatar

Aw, thanks girlie.

I will always overuse “awesome”. Always. Damn 80s. :p

Kardamom's avatar

Crotch

Supacase's avatar

Womb
Phlegm
Hirsute
Bedraggled

Bellatrix's avatar

Normal… What the heck IS normal?

I don’t like crotch either. No idea why.

gailcalled's avatar

^^^Do you have the same response to “crutch,” “hutch,” “scratch” or “scratch”? Does the meaning of “crotch” produce the bias you feel?

Bellatrix's avatar

No idea why @gailcalled. I just don’t think it has a nice sound to it and particularly for the part of the body it describes. It sounds hard and harsh. I don’t think there’s any logic to my dislike other than the sound.

Gabby101's avatar

Toilet
Crotch
Tampax (used for tampons)

linguaphile's avatar

I despise the word “smoothie.” Someone that used to live with me overused the word—would say it in a singsong, little girlish voice, “I looove _smooooooouuuuuuuthieeees!”

After a while the word just sounded so smushy, rotten and saccharine.

Berserker's avatar

@bookish1 Ya Oor. silent T

…XD

But over here we say yo goor.

As for my answer, I hate every word that doesn’t have the word Viking in it. That, and badunkadunk. Or however you spell that crap.

ucme's avatar

@bookish1 Affa-david, sounds like some arab sheikh.

Aster's avatar

rehomed
regifted
Any “new” word Americans have made up starting with “re.”
” I rehomed a lost cat.”” I hated that present so I regifted it.”

Pachy's avatar

I dislike the word “hurl” for regurgitate and “awesome” for anything but a miraculous event.

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