Do some words/phrases make you cringe?

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"You don't mind, do you?"

How am I supposed to answer that?
- "Yes, I do."
- "Yes, I don't mind."
- "No, I do."
- "No, I don't mind."

Only three...

"Open wide."

"This won't hurt."

"Oops!"

... in that order

sometimes i think "i have just had a thought which i estimate you are incapable of realizing, let alone fortiftying, and so therefore i am not going to tell you what it is".


everything is conditional.

Hence i'll stay quiet.

One thing that really irks me is when people shorten words such as legitimate or delicious into "legit" or "delicious". Are they really going to be short of breath if they say two more syallables? I had to stop watching CSI becuase it made me have meltdowns whenever Grissom would say "decomp" instead of "decompositon". I correct people's grammar all the time and my best friend would often times call me "the grammar queen". One thing I do not stand for is when people spell meerkat with a C instead of a K. My signiture used to read "Spell meerkat with a C and I will stab you". I got repremanded for it on every fourm I've been on. But it's not something I came up with. I saw someone on a Timon or Lion King fourm using that as their "sig" and figured it probably fit me more than it ever would fit them. Although I wouldn't stab someone physicaly for spelling it with a C, I would verbably chastise them. I once bought a greeting card with a meerkat on it and that was labled with a C. I had a meltdown and was even going to contact the company and go all grammar Nazi on them. If I ever become a dictator, spelling meerkat with a C will be a first class felony.

When my neice was born, my dad's nick name for her was "Tweedle". Something about the sound of that word really bothered me. I begged him to call her something else in front of me but he wouldn't and wouldn't listen to me about how it botherd me. The sound of the word hurt my ears. I think I have synestasia too.

if you had stayed quiet in reality, i would not know you stayed quiet because i would not have known you existed.

Thanks for stating the obvious.

saying "I lied" or "just kidding" in place of "THat wasn't what I meant to say." Why would you rather be a liar than own up to your mis-speak?

I don't like it when people say" hey "when they greet each other instead of "Hello"another one is using the word "Bathroom" when they mean "Toilet" someone asked me if I was looking for the "Bathroom" one day and I said to them "No thanks I had already had a bath this morning"

I remember some girls in my secondary school used this to describe about anything they didn't like.

I hate the word "thick" when used to describe somebodies intelligence level
It irks me out for some reason

things like 'dont take this the wrong way.. (cue insult)'

Mispronunciations of "Ask": "Axed" and "Arxed".

"Too true."



Edit: Also, for some reason I also don't like hearing the sound of my own name when I am being spoken to. No idea why, though.

names of people.
contractions ("Jedward, Glamping etc.)
general poor spelling and punctuation. not too bothered about capitalisation for some reason.
americanisms
people that correct other peoples spelling and grammar in error.

I cannot STAND the word 'Stink' - it is so onomatopaeic, the word itself reeks. I say 'Reek' instead. Also 'Delicious', it is just a revolting word to pronounce and most times to listen to.

And I can't stand anything to do with feet, in fact I often can't take the word itself, ditto toes. I'll say 'boot' or 'shoe' instead - keep your boot on the pedal.

"Asperger's," for about five different reasons.