does anyone else have a list of words they absolutley hate?

Hey Rockerwitch, Guilty as charged (she admits with head hung low). I am very fond of using the word gal. Girl implies youth to me. Female is just too scientific. Woman implies narry more than a rib taken from Adam. And, Lady must be earned, in my humble opinion. So, if I don't know enough about a human female to accurately assign description, then gal has always felt like a safe, non-offensive catch-all term. Now that I know that use of the term equates to fingernails on a chalkboard for some, I might find it helpful to reconsider use of this term. However, I will add that it does roll off the tongue quite nicely for me. Maybe it's a western thing.

HAHA! i just added that to my list! thats very, um, larry the cable guy lol.

Hello Hmmmmm, Well, I say let's have a little fun. We can 'sick' the "Meriam-Webster" semanticists on the "Oxford" semanticists and let 'em duke it out over whether irregardless' is, in fact, a word. What d'ya say? We can pull up some lawn chairs and pop some corn while we watch them unravel over this humorously redundant adverb. And, when they're done, we can commit ourselves to re-hab together to overcome our texting insensitivities. So, what are we allowed to bring to verbiage rehabiliation?

Hmmmmm, Sounds good! I hope the weather holds out for the match-up. I'd hate to see you get rained on in your uniform. If you bring the vodka, I'll bring the tonic & ice, or Vermouth & olives, if you prefer. So, do you think I'll get kicked out of rehab if I bring my own dictionary?

According to Random House's Unabridged Dictionary: Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.

oh, you should start a discussion about mispronunciations then! id respond to that with a huge list. i thought hoodies were different from sweatshirts, because hoodies have hoods. am i wrong? and i thought sweatshirts were not hoodies because those are the ones without hoods. i wonder how many times ive made this mistake haha

i happen to have a mouth like a trucker lol but on mylot i have to be nice:) well some profanities do bother me a bit,( not for the obvious reason, just for the way the word sounds) but id never say someone couldn't say them. :)

Skosh is like smidge... meaning a little bit...a tiny bit...but tepid is still my all time "ish" word!! And as I am typing this I just thought of paltry...yet another one!

OH OH MY GOD! i cant believe i forgot supple! one of my most HATED words! and Puce, i just learned that the other day actually, i had never heard it before, and hope i never do again. that was an excellent list! but what is skosh?

hah, i KNEW i was nuts! But see? you DO have a list, kinda, i can say you are close to as nuts as me! along with the rest of you lol. kidding. ( yes, I'd say your words count, and belong in this list. lol)

hi Carly, thank you:) i wanted to say to you that i also cringe when i hear things with that kind of accent. y'all is one of the worst for me. If i had listed all of these along with my others however, id have taken a whole page lol

hahah! so glad i could entertain you! maybe its just what i associate with those words. when i hear the word "supper" i think hillybilly cookin up roadkill or something. ya know," come en git it! supper time boys!!" and squall, well i think that just speaks for itself. lol say it out loud and you'll see. OH i have another one even! "squwak"! ok i cant spell it but sound it out, you'll see. like when someone says a chicken is "sqwuaking"? horrible sound. (the word, not the chicken). k i have rambled forever, thanks for the response and i look forward to a few words of yours!

you prefer old folks home over senior residence? i would have thought the opposite actually. old folks home seems so depressing lol. senior residence i think just sounds more professional, and maybe a little more politically correct? someone might think "old folks home" to be offensive im sure. so many complainers out there.

oh my god, you make me laugh. Id say all the things i'd normally say to you, but we are here on mylot so ill play nice lol. Perhaps i'll explain to all of them about Ben& Jerry's? hahaha no, im not that evil. have a nice day:)

Just to clarify, Rhapsody and I share a very special friendship. It all started when she stole my -spatula- and then wrote about it in her -blog-. She loves to -blog- all the time. Shes a regular -blogger-. So anyways, I was mixing up some -supper- and she came over to me and said "Oh wow, those -Beefcakes- look very -supple-. It's too bad I think they taste -putrid- and smell like -musk-." "Well," I replied "Maybe you would like some -lox-? I'll just whip some up for you in this -bowl- here. Will you hand me that -spatula- please?" At which point she took the -spatula- and ran off into the horizon like a -squall- of -putrid- -bagels-. After she had left, I noticed she left a -puddle- of -blog- all over my kitchen floor. See, I told you she loves to -blog-. The end.