Fernsehturm

Words I don’t like

October 15, 2006 · 6 Comments

Pamphlet
Packet
brochure
cherry (in reference to the condition of a car. Thanks Uncle Doody!)
shoppe (or any other word that is spelled in an “English” or “French” way. Do ya hear me “theatre”?)
restaurateur (there is a word “restauranteur”. Why have both?)
moist
crabby (sounds horrible. Hearing it makes me…crabby.)

More to come and please add your own!

Categories: Blither Blather

6 responses so far ↓

  • Erika // November 15, 2006 at 1:33 pm | Reply

    Ah, you’ve sent me on a trip down memory lane. Mike, Tom, Maureen and I (many years ago … after many, many glasses of wine) compiled our own list of despised words. Every few years, I stumble across the slip of paper and it makes me laugh and cringe at the same time.

    Here they are, for your enjoyment (or not):

    wound
    crevice
    Woolworth
    c**t (the nasty word for a woman’s you-know-what)
    c**k (the nasty word for a guy’s you-know-what)
    hunker-down
    anal or anus
    poop
    womb
    puss
    spew
    Spunkmeyer (as in Otis)
    weiner
    scum
    skank

    Apparently not wanting to dwell too much on the negative (or maybe we just ran out of wine … I can’t recall) we came up with a much shorter list of good words:

    freckle
    pie

    Hey — you asked. :-)

    EBE

  • fernsehturm // December 9, 2006 at 5:41 pm | Reply

    Here’s the first of a long list of puns that I can’t stand:

    dollars and sense

    More to come…

  • fernsehturm // March 12, 2007 at 9:00 am | Reply

    Fungible (why not just use interchangeble?)

  • fernsehturm // January 22, 2008 at 6:12 pm | Reply

    appeteaser

  • Phrases I don’t like « Fernsehturm // February 20, 2008 at 8:43 pm | Reply

    [...] come across my mind and the place where I will occasionally list things that I don’t like (words, for instance), here is my starter list of phrases that I don’t like. I don’t like them because they [...]

  • fernsehturm // February 22, 2008 at 6:42 pm | Reply

    “Flustrated” Ugh I hate this word sooo much.

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