Posted by Craig on January 31, 2010 – 9:20 am
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Words I hate #1: http://craigsplace.info/2009/07/words-i-hate-168/
Fellow
as in “Have you met that fellow over there?”
It sounds wierd! Sorry, but I can’t help it. I think people that say fellow sound like they’re trying to be posh, but they just sound silly. It reminds me of Humphrey B. Bear. In fact, the only time fellow sounds normal is when used in the phrase “What a funny old fellow is XXX”. Extra points if the funny old fellow is named Humphrey. In any other context, it’s wierd.
Twit
as in “Did you read the twit from @thatperson?”
I use twitter all the time. and originally a single twitter post was called a tweet. But lately people have been calling them twits. This is not right. A twit is an idiot. A twit is what you sound like when you call a twitter message a twit. Please people, think about it. The word twitter comes from the sound a bird makes, and the singular form of that is tweet. Use the word properly!
Posted by Craig on July 28, 2009 – 8:55 pm
Filed under Blog, Words
Tagged as hate, Words
UPDATION
As in “please take control of the file updation”.
I always thought it wasn’t even a real word, then to my surprise I found it its real. Its a silly, awkward sounding word. Its like they someone threw this group of letters together and told them to form a word, but none of them really know what they’re doing in this word.
METRIC
As in “the number of escalations will be monitored as a metric”.
In this case it means ‘statistic’, but used this way its just odd. It wasn’t meant to be used like this! Metric is a form of measurement, and that’s all it should be.
INCUMBENT
As in “our incumbent Agent is finishing up at the end of the month”.
I’d never even heard of this word until today. It sounds like a cross between incompetent and a cucumber, and that’s not a good mix.
JUXTAPOSITION
Being a writer, I’ve been thinking about this word quite a bit lately, and I have discovered that I hate the sound of it. It does not roll off the tongue nicely. Its large and ungainly, like an overweight man trying to do ballet. ‘Position’ is a nice word, but the ‘juxta’ at the front unbalances it.
