Because no one ever wants a moist nugget
In surfing the internet, looking for lists of the most hated words, I found a few that were pretty phenomenal, which I will link to below. My reason for this type of focused internet searching is due to the fact that I feel an uprising is needed to have all of the major publishers remove certain words like “moist,” “nugget,” and “panties” from their dictionaries (Oxford? American Heritage? Do we have an understanding?).
While I’m on the subject of words that generate anxiety or distaste, I’ve noticed lately there are many other words so consistently incorrectly pronounced, it’s all I can do to not run screaming from the room, ears covered, singing “La la la la laaaaa!” to block out the offense (see also: supposably [supposedly], athalete [athlete]). Other nausea-inducing mispronunciations include: “Wash” pronounced as “Warsh,” “Milk” pronounced as “Melk,” “Interesting” pronounced as “Inneresting,” and of course, “Nuclear” pronounced as “Nu-Q-Lur.”
Finally, one regional bit of scary that I’ve run into since moving to Ohio (”Ohiah” if you’re from an hour or more south of Columbus) is the odd choice to omit in speech the “to be” from certain phrases. It makes my hair stand on end. The best and most-used example of this would be “needs done,” as in “Honey, the wash needs done.” I’m getting a chill just typing it. I don’t know how these two short but important words disappeared from the English language around here, but someone needs to find them and bring them back before my head explodes.
But I digress.
I give you…some lists!
Wordie’s Corporate Buzz Words and Phrases
If you’re on Facebook, you can join the I Hate the Word Moist group. (I have to be honest, I am tempted to go and sign up right now.)
