Words you can't stand hearing

[slipstream]

What word just rubs you the wrong way? We've got the obvious offensive ones, please leave those out.
I'm talking regular, every day words that get under your skin.

Me first!

Preggers

Next?

[ October 24, 2007, 07:20 AM: Message edited by: slipstream ]

[cinehead]

Phenomenal

[ncreporterdude]

Literally.

[ncreporterdude]

By the way, my wife is literally preggers. It's phenomenal.

[HushHush]

{whispering}

George W Bush

{running away}

[Bobby Fischer]

Absolutely!

[ciscoubr]

"On the other hand"

AAAEEEEAAAHHHHH

[Jane Craig]

Anything that would have a square on Dilbert's Buzzword Bingo: proactive, paradigm shift, downsizing, rightsizing, strategic, etc.

and Yo.

[foxravens]

efforting

[TJAB 23]

Flighty use of "wow".

It's usually more like, "woooooooooow?!?"

[TopRamen]

Amen on "preggers."

Any combo name word, such as "Brangelina, Vaughnistan, Bennifer."

I hate hearing certain words mispronounced by news anchors and reporters

Children=choldren
Rural=re-wal
Realtor=real-it-or

The word "shady" is starting to grate on me a little.

"like" used as a crutch in sentences. "So I went to the store, and he told me that like, he needed some beer..." you get the picture.

[Eeps Snorps Now]

"At the end of the day."

[Diplomat]

I'm with foxravens on "efforting." Sounds like a made-up word to me.

"functionality"

"temblor" - for earthquake. I've NEVER heard anyone in the real world use it in conversation.

"the next level"

"disempowered"

[cinehead]

Another made up word: Repurposing. I hate all corporate-speak.

Excuse me while I "re-purpose" my lunch.

[ July 14, 2006, 06:09 AM: Message edited by: cinehead ]

[Radio & TV]

Succulent.

"F-bomb."

[sandwichpick]

Originally posted by Gravefully Sinful:
"At the end of the day."And along with that "apprentice" speak..... "step up to the plate".

[TopRamen]

Jargon of all kinds irritates:

"End-users"

"deliverables"

"Receivables"

"webinar"

[Jane Craig]

Awesome.

[TopRamen]

"think outside the box."

[Clever Login Name]

Budgie.

Akimbo.

Chum.

[Jane Craig]

Squat.

[sandwichpick]

Belch

[Love Biscuit]

When did we start using the phrase "went missing?" No one "went missing." They disapeared.

[TV Dad]

Originally posted by cinehead:
Another made up word: Repurposing. I hate all corporate-speak.

Excuse me while I "re-purpose" my lunch.Ugh...I'm with you! I used to work for someone who LOVED corporate-speak. We could always tell when she'd been to a big meeting because she'd come back with some new buzz-word. It reminded me of PeeWee's Playhouse. "The word for the day is..."

[ July 14, 2006, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: TV Dad ]

[Mom]

I scrolled down to see if anyone had added "awesome" to the list and there was my soul mate, Jane, once again beating me to the punch....but just to emphasize my dislike for the word I have to post it again: AWESOME!

[Sparky]

"Boom goes the dynamite."

Just kidding. I love that phrase!

[vnotch]

"Having said that..."

[Anne Bonney]

Originally posted by TopRamen:
Rural=re-walLOL. I can't that word right to save my life.

For me it's "ilk" ... and a current favorite of teens, "fierce" meaning awesome. ;)

[TopRamen]

Teens have a funny way of using negative words to mean something good. I heard one last night--"sick" that was "sick" means that was really good. what?

I freelanced for a tree care magazine once and a word that appears in this industry is "felled"--he "felled a tree" with his chainsaw. I never did get used to that.

[Mom]

"Well ... " at the start of a sentence in a newscast. :mad:

[Lazlo Toth]

proctologist

[22]

Originally posted by Diplomat:
I'm with foxravens on "efforting." Sounds like a made-up word to me.

It is a made up word. I can even tell you who, when and where it was made up.

In the first months of CNN (mostly, in order to fill time) they would cut to a locked down camera at the assignment desk. Ed Turner, the VP in charge of editorial for CNN, would talk about stories that were expected to come up on CNN later in the day. They couldn't say "stories we are working on" because in fact, many of them were NOT being worked on. They could not say "stories we will have later in the day" because there was a good chance they WOULDN'T have them.
So Ed would say "efforting". He was a real wordsmith and he didn't like it. But that was the only thing they could come up with that was brief enough to fit the one minute cut in he had.
Unfortunatly, it caught on.

[Jane Craig]

"person of interest"

[Ferrycrossthemersey]

I hate cutesy, shortened versions of perfectly good words: I especially loathe "veggies" for vegetables, or "hubby" for husband (shudder).

And in corporate-speak, there's "partnering".

[sportzchick]

Binky instead of pacifier

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by Jane Craig:

and Yo.Where I come from, that's a very necessary word. It's handy for calling out to your friends and hailing cabs, etc. :D

[s'news]

"Plethora," when used to mean "lotsa" instead of "too much."

[Roy Hobbs]

Another vote for "efforting," the high water mark of ProducerSpeak.

[sandwichpick]

Originally posted by sportzchick:
Binky instead of pacifierHow about dutz? It's pronounced like foots with a d on the front end. That's what we called a pacifier. I even hate it, and it's part of my family lore.

[UpNorth]

"folks" hate it hate it hate it!

....I am guilty of the like as a\ crutch... and just can't seem to eradicate it from my speech (I'd have wrote vocab, but didn't want to offend a previous poster!)

[Signature on File]

The word on the top of my list would have to be,
"fart".

[newschick26]

Polyp.

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

Originally posted by Love Biscuit:
When did we start using the phrase "went missing?" No one "went missing." They disapeared.So agree with this one, I don't know one person who'd use "went missing" in everyday conversation, other than my colleagues.
My turn....Hate-statistic
Can't say right on air-Distribute.
For some reason, I always try to say dis-tribute. Really pisses me off, and the more I think about it, the worse I screw it up.

One more hate-regime

[Morrissey]

Allegedly- except when Jim Rome uses it. Hate it in a newscast.

http://motorcycleaupairboy.com/images/live/l92001.jpg

[PGM]

I would like to second "hubby" and "binky". Parents I know use "binky" as though it's an actual word. Maybe it is. I don't know. Is it a brand name? Whatever it is, it's annoying. I can tell you that. "So little Stevie dropped his binky this morning and..." Wait. What?

I nominate "topping".
ToppingToppingToppingToppingToppingTopping.
The word has lost all meaning.

[sportzchick]

how about wafer?

[JoinUsForCake]

"preps" as in,

"Final preps are underway for the Thanksgiving parade..."

I dont know why, but the word makes me cringe. :confused: graemlins/face_banghead.gif graemlins/eusa_doh.gif

[Jane Craig]

"birthing" and "parenting." I dislike the use of "birth" or "parent" as a verb, too.

[Anne Bonney]

Originally posted by PGM:
I nominate "topping".
ToppingToppingToppingToppingToppingTopping.
Okay, just what is wrong with topping?

Chocolate fudge topping on a banana split. graemlins/iloveyou.gif

[PGM]

Ooh, I got another one.

Midwifery.

Especially when it's pronounced "wif", not "wyf". Either way is bad, but "wifery" is nails on a chalkboard. It doesn't help that the connotation kind of creeps me out.

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

Originally posted by PGM:
Ooh, I got another one.

Midwifery.

Especially when it's pronounced "wif", not "wyf". Either way is bad, but "wifery" is nails on a chalkboard. It doesn't help that the connotation kind of creeps me out.Have to admit, reporter did a story on midwifery, and I introduced her, saying it just how it looks, mid-wife-ry...instead of mid-wiffffery. My coanchor got a kick out of it, I did too.

[Laughing Angel]

Closure.

I'm watching a package and I can usually see it coming from way downtown.

[sportzchick]

Someone once here said they hated "uber" after i used it once.

uber uber uber uber uber uber uber

Now it just looks silly.

[News Is Broken]

Originally posted by PGM:
Parents I know use "binky" as though it's an actual word. Maybe it is. I don't know. Is it a brand name? Whatever it is, it's annoying. I can tell you that. "So little Stevie dropped his binky this morning and..." Wait. What?
Damn straight. Anyone who isn't a completely clueless moron knows it's called a "bippy" not a "binky".

[Head Janitor]

Actually.

Knew a reporter who used it in every live shot.
"Actually Jane, the police say...."

Loosely translated, it meant, "No Dumba$$..."

And that was after the reporter would transcribe a toss for the anchor, setting the person up to be wrong.

[hoosiergirl]

I love my "hubby", but I hate "resident".

[JoinUsForCake]

Originally posted by Laughing Angel:
Closure.AGREED! I believe this word came to prominence in 1995 or so with the OJ Simpson/Brown-Goldman murders. Now there can't be a single trial anywhere without somebody going on the record wishing the family gets some "closure."

Seriously. Who uses this word in this context except for producers and people who know they are on TV?

[Focker]

More of a pronounciation issue:

Harassment...when it's pronounced "HARE-ess-ment". You don't "HARE-ess" someone, do you? No, you "ha-RASS" someone.

[ July 14, 2006, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: Focker ]

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by Jane Craig:
"birthing" and "parenting." I dislike the use of "birth" or "parent" as a verb, too.Amen.

[NewsMom]

Oh, you little children!

Binky is an old-time brand name for a pacifier. It was as ubiquitous as Kleenex. So, do you say Kleenex, or are you one of those people who says "tissue" ?

HARE-assment is the preferred pronounciation, because you don't want to talk about Her Ass! Or, at least, that's what my first TV news director insisted.

Here's my hot-button (oh, I hate that phrase, too): incident. When will everyone understand that whenever there's a death involved, you have no business speaking of an "incident". Oh, incidentally, your brother died. It's not an incident.

Vent, vent.

Thank you.

[bride]

kismet

fart

crust

[bride]

Originally posted by newschick26:
Polyp.Oh, I agree.

sh*tfaced is another one.

[ July 14, 2006, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: bride ]

[Pinkie]

Potty.

[SpxGrunt]

Sweet. Or: Suuuhh-weeet. Just shut up.

[News Is Broken]

Originally posted by NewsMom:
So, do you say Kleenex, or are you one of those people who says "tissue" ? I don't buy kleenex or tissue. Why buy both TP AAAAAND snot rags? The TP works equally well for noses as it does for butts. I just don't recommend using the same SHEET for both..... graemlins/eusa_shifty.gif

Of course, I just cannot physically stop myself from posting this image after posting about TP:
http://www.tek-tonic.com/stuff/cornholio.gif

I guess I really do need therapy....

[ZuZu's Petals]

I hope to God this isn't used in news writing, but my word or phrase pet peeve is....

BABY MAMA (and also BABY DADDY)

I'm bothered by the mere fact that a term had to be developed for for someone who is your child's mother or father, but is not your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. Even ex- any of the above wouldn't work because there were probably too many subsequent players. It's just evidence of the disintigration of our society.

Done venting.

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

How about Grill....as in "check out my Griiiill"
(freakin'nasty gold teeth)

[PGM]

Oh, man. I have another one.

Baby bump. For a woman's stomach when she is pregnant and showing. ET, Extra and the rest have used it a lot lately when talking about Gwenyth, Katie, Britney and the rest. Blech.

Wait. Binky, midwifery and baby bump. I'm sensing a trend here.

[neodeity]

Kudos on "efforting." I'd like to add "kudos" to the list and the obnoxious suffix "-gate" being tacked onto to anything that even remotely resembles a scandal.
As for "closure," I was working in OKC during and after the bombing, I got so sick of hearing that phrase about needing closure I started volunteering, "you mean like a zipper or a snap or a button?" whenever I heard it.

[AutoTranz]

Entertainment news.

[Roy G. Biv]

"In a new study published......"

[Don Konkey]

Like, there aren't like too many words that I like dislike. You know what I'm sayin'.

[s'news]

Originally posted by ISTHISTHINGON?:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Love Biscuit:
When did we start using the phrase "went missing?" No one "went missing." They disapeared.So agree with this one, I don't know one person who'd use "went missing" in everyday conversation, other than my colleagues.

</font>[/QUOTE]I'm not big on "went missing," but "missing" is a fine word by itself. In most cases, when someone is missing, they turn up soon enough. And they're okay. And in those cases where they're not okay, they nonetheless turn up. "Disappeared" has a "poof" element to it, with a cloud of smoke and an element of finality, as if they're gone forever, to be probed by space aliens and released in Roswell someday in the future.

[foxravens]

As I go through the posts, it occurs to me that I might need to share something I have been compling for many months.
To wit:
Things Men Should Never Say
1. Thingy
2. Yummy
3. Veggies
4. Tummy
5. Precious
6. Adore

Please feel free to add some of your own.

[Jane Craig]

use of any form of the verb "go" to describe human speech: "So, like, he goes 'Let's call Amanda.' And I go, 'Like, OK.'" So we call her and she goes, "Like, what are you guys doing?"

[ July 15, 2006, 05:11 AM: Message edited by: Jane Craig ]

[sophie]

How about adults who mimick a young child's speaking? When my neighbor's grandson was a todler, she took him to Wal-Mart, which he pronounced "Waaah-Maaah". Now that's how SHE says it.....ALL THE TIME! It was cute, ONCE!

Worse, she "corrects" me if I say "Wal-Mart".

The grandson is 8 now. graemlins/eusa_doh.gif

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by foxravens:
As I go through the posts, it occurs to me that I might need to share something I have been compling for many months.
To wit:
Things Men Should Never Say
1. Thingy
2. Yummy
3. Veggies
4. Tummy
5. Precious
6. Adore

Please feel free to add some of your own.I'm not quite sure about #1, but agree fully with you on #2-#6. When asked if I want any "veggies," I've been known to tell people, "I don't eat veggies. I eat vegetables."

Although, I do think the "Veggie-Tales" cartoons are nice for kids.

[Charlie Brown]

Any word that I can't read off a prompter. For the longest time, I've had problems saying the Illinois' governor's name on the air. Even in the edit bay, it'll take ten takes to record a track without messing it up.

[bride]

Originally posted by Charlie Brown:
Any word that I can't read off a prompter. For the longest time, I've had problems saying the Illinois' governor's name on the air. Even in the edit bay, it'll take ten takes to record a track without messing it up.Thank you. I have a hard time spitting out "when we return". I always change it to "when we come back."

Oh, here's another one. How about calling a police chief a "top cop"? Or ANY police officer a COP??!!

[s'news]

I had a yummy thingy the other day, along with some veggies on the side. I adored how they looked on the plate, but the precious part was how tasty they were and how they filled my tummy.

[SpxGrunt]

I had a yummy thingy the other day, along with some veggies on the side. I adored how they looked on the plate, but the precious part was how tasty they were and how they filled my tummy. http://www.psimawesome.com/images/eric-estrada-homosexual.gif

[ July 15, 2006, 11:45 AM: Message edited by: SpxGrunt ]

[ZuZu's Petals]

Originally posted by PGM:
Oh, man. I have another one.

Baby bump. For a woman's stomach when she is pregnant and showing. ET, Extra and the rest have used it a lot lately when talking about Gwenyth, Katie, Britney and the rest. Blech.

Wait. Binky, midwifery and baby bump. I'm sensing a trend here.Good call! I'll second that one.
A) who cares if some stupid celebrity is pregnant?
and B) it's another fixation on women's bodies. These celebrities are so thin, and many with insanely buff abs, it's as if someone resorted to saying 'baby bump' in order to point out "hey... her stomach is not flat! She'd better be pregnant or we're going to start calling her a fat cow!!!"

[mothball]

Bling.

Especially when it's used by white people.

It's a necklace, or a ring, or a dental appliance -- or in Mr. T's case, it's an abundance and combination of those. But not bling.

Bling is the noise a broken telephone makes after I slam it into a wall.

[RevRee]

Originally posted by mothball:
Bling.

Especially when it's used by white people.

It's a necklace, or a ring, or a dental appliance -- or in Mr. T's case, it's an abundance and combination of those. But not bling.

Bling is the noise a broken telephone makes after I slam it into a wall.Why Especially white people? It doesn't matter what color someone is! No one should be using this word.

[ July 16, 2006, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: RevRee ]

[mothball]

But hearin' it from a sista's mouth ALMOST legitimizes it. Unlike when it comes from the mouth of one of my anchors.

And no -- it's always her choice. I don't put that word into my scripts - unless it's a story about some dude who got stomped for sayin' that word.

[Brain Cramp]

Originally posted by Charlie Brown:
Any word that I can't read off a prompter. For the longest time, I've had problems saying the Illinois' governor's name on the air. Even in the edit bay, it'll take ten takes to record a track without messing it up.Bluh-goy-ah-vitch. What's so hard about that? We had an anchor who didn't want to bother to pronounce the Governor's name correctly (he also didn't like him) so he only referred to him as "Blah-go." That didn't last too long, as you might imagine.

One time I couldn't say "infant immunizations" no matter how many times I tried. And I tried a lot instead of just giving up early and saying "you know, baby shots."

[Charlie Brown]

Try reading a script with the phrase "Governor Blagojevich" while you're under a deadline or going live and you'll understand what I am talking about.

[s'news]

"Bling" is so 90s.

[got the t-shirt]

Originally posted by Focker:
More of a pronounciation issue:

Harassment...when it's pronounced "HARE-ess-ment". You don't "HARE-ess" someone, do you? No, you "ha-RASS" someone.Thank you! EXACTLY what I was thinking...I shudder everytime I hear someone say "HARE-ess-ment"...blah

[ July 16, 2006, 10:49 PM: Message edited by: got the t-shirt ]

[Meow Meow]

Originally posted by ZuZu's Petals:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by PGM:
Oh, man. I have another one.

Baby bump. For a woman's stomach when she is pregnant and showing. ET, Extra and the rest have used it a lot lately when talking about Gwenyth, Katie, Britney and the rest. Blech.

Wait. Binky, midwifery and baby bump. I'm sensing a trend here.Good call! I'll second that one.
A) who cares if some stupid celebrity is pregnant?
and B) it's another fixation on women's bodies. These celebrities are so thin, and many with insanely buff abs, it's as if someone resorted to saying 'baby bump' in order to point out "hey... her stomach is not flat! She'd better be pregnant or we're going to start calling her a fat cow!!!"</font>[/QUOTE]Ugggggggggggggg!!! I HATE "Baby Bump." Gross.

[sonorandesert]

24/7 (redundant)

24/7/365 (really redundant)

[got the t-shirt]

I forgot my other gripe: "winningest"...HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT!! :mad:

[That 70's Show]

"Sketchy".

One of the biggest crutches in the news game... "Details are sketchy..."

Hate it.

[Sultanosurf]

"Word" or "What up?" Yeah, I'm down wit dat

"Late-breaking" I know what it means and still don't know what it means.

"Infrastructure" Mysteriously vague but you know it'll cost millions.

And "temblor" doesn't bother me at all, especially since it's a geologically correct term. Besides, when you're into your tenth hour covering one, anything sounds great other than "earthquake" ...

[WalMartNation]

Engulfed... as in the house in engulfed in flames. No particular reason that I can't stand hearing it other than the fact that no story can air in my market about a fire without that word. graemlins/face_banghead.gif

[Radio & TV]

Originally posted by Charlie Brown:
Try reading a script with the phrase "Governor Blagojevich" while you're under a deadline or going live and you'll understand what I am talking about.When he first went to Congress the John Landecker radio show in Chicago recorded a version of "The Name Game" with his name in it.

Blagojevich Blagojevich bo Lagojevich
Banana fanna fo flagojevich
Fe fi mo magojevich
Blagojevich.

It's catchy. (They also did "Dikembe Mutombo".)

[printgal]

Facility

Sources said

[The Mockingbird]

Plus... some tips to make you safer.

If you're safe, you're out of danger. You don't make something safer, you make it less dangerous.

I don't care if it's in the dictionary, it's stupid. So is the word ain't.

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by The Mockingbird:
Plus... some tips to make you safer.

If you're safe, you're out of danger. You don't make something safer, you make it less dangerous.

I don't care if it's in the dictionary, it's stupid. So is the word ain't.Morley's last name is stupid?

:D

[oldfart]

Words you hate??

HERO.......it has no meaning anymore.

How about "Surprise"....as it ends up in every anchor piece about ANY storm that moves through the ADI (or anywhere else for that matter)

[Pinkie]

Originally posted by got the t-shirt:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Focker:
More of a pronounciation issue:

Harassment...when it's pronounced "HARE-ess-ment". You don't "HARE-ess" someone, do you? No, you "ha-RASS" someone.Thank you! EXACTLY what I was thinking...I shudder everytime I hear someone say "HARE-ess-ment"...blah</font>[/QUOTE]I hate that too... along with pronouncing advertisement as ad-VER-tiz-ment. It sounds normal as AD-ver-tise-ment. You don't ad-VER-tiz something, you AD-ver-tise it. Grr.

[ July 18, 2006, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: Pinkie ]

[3.58 mHZ]

Originally posted by mothball:
Bling.

Bling is the noise a broken telephone makes after I slam it into a wall.Thank you for the best laugh I've had tonight!

:D

Meanwhile, let me contribute:

proactive

[AND]

any word traditionally used as a noun, that somehow has had found a way to be turned into a verb this generation . . .

[ July 19, 2006, 01:17 AM: Message edited by: 3.58 mHZ ]

[Charlie Brown]

Preggers.

Who came up with this word? Why do people insist on using it?

[adam &amp; doctor drew]

"Cautiously Optimistic."

[adam &amp; doctor drew]

Originally posted by That 70's Show:
"Sketchy".

One of the biggest crutches in the news game... "Details are sketchy..."

Hate it.totally agree.
whenever I hear "details are sketchy," I think 'maybe you oughta get more details before you put this on the air.'

[DoneThatToo]

"You're Fired!"

graemlins/icon_kidra.gif

[AlabamaTVer]

Delicious (that goes back to someone I used to work with who would say it and shivers would run up and down my spine because of how she said it)

Tender

Moist

Juicy

Veggies (they are vegetables and you aren't 4 years old. Say the whole freaking word)

Yummy

I had friends in college who had words they hated too: slacks, gymnasium, slather, panties, mayonnaise

[Focker]

Plethora...

Reminds me too much of a certain word associated with birth. I always think of the educational video I saw in 4th grade where they showed a woman giving birth. ((Shudder)).

Actually, I'm sure when my future wife (whoever That will be) gives birth to my kid (whenever THAT will be), I'll think the actuall event of giving birth is the greatest thing in the world (not in small part because I'm not the one passing a basketball through the size of an apple).

[ July 19, 2006, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: Focker ]

[Seahawk]

Originally posted by Ferrycrossthemersey:

And in corporate-speak, there's "partnering".Marketing means I pay for it.
Partnering means you pay for it.

[Diplomat]

"Bennies" for benefits. That sounds so lame. Too many HR and management types love to use it.

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by Seahawk:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Ferrycrossthemersey:

And in corporate-speak, there's "partnering".Marketing means I pay for it.
Partnering means you pay for it.</font>[/QUOTE]It drives me up the wall when people who don't understand "marketing" or "public relations" use those terms when they mean "sales."

[Sultanosurf]

"Disgruntled" Ever meet a 'gruntled' employee?

[SpxGrunt]

I really hate it when I'm asked for my "social." First time I was asked that, I was perplexed. My social status? A social disease? My social drinking buddies?

[cinehead]

Originally posted by Sultanosurf:
"Disgruntled" Ever meet a 'gruntled' employee?Wouldn't SpxGrunt qualify as 'gruntled'?