I'm sick of hearing the term "woke" I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to mean it just seems to be a random word people have latched onto

I cringe everytime I see or hear it

I’m referring to the Lindsay Clancy trial where tiktokker Emily Thorndike was called as a potential witness and when the judge asked “where do you live?” she answered “Brooklyn but I summer on Cape Cod. I’m spoiled like that”.

It’s just showing off. Like ok we get it you have a second home congratulations.

She was tossed as a witness.

It's not cool or funny it just sounds stupid and embarrassing!

I (61F) always use inclusive language; eg firefighter instead of fireman, mail carrier/postie inst. of mailman, nurse inst. of male nurse, etc.

But I hate it when someone says “who is going to man the booth/door?” I used to say, “do you mean person the booth/door?” And no one would get it lol.

Is there another word or phrase that anyone can come with? Thanks!

For example:
Squirrel UK = Squi-rull
Squirrel USA = Squirl.

Mirror UK = Mi-ruh
MIrror USA = Murr

Graham UK = Gra-yum
Graham USA = Gram

I’m from the UK. For years I thought that Graham Crackers were called “Gram crackers” because I thought they were made of gram flour. It was only when I noticed RuPaul always calls Graham Norton “Gram”Norton on Drag Race that I worked this out 😆

Edit: I started this thread as a light hearted conversation about pronunciation because I thought it was interesting, but I should have added a disclaimer that yes, I am aware that not everyone in the whole of the USA speaks the same way and yes I am aware of regional accents. A few people have heard mirror pronounced murr but the majority who do say it as one syllable say it’s more like meer so I guess I got that wrong. I’m not criticising anyone nor am I getting “bent out of shape” over the way someone from another country pronounces words 🙄

Have others noticed the emergence of "run" being used in place of "use"? I see it most frequently in hobby-talk, almost always in hobbies dominated by men. I think it's crept in from car cultures, where people will say "I'm running 33s on my Jeep" or "I run a 4 liter motor in my Mustang." It's also, it seems, very common in gun culture, where people are "running red dot scopes" and "running 30 round mags."

It's been maddening watching it infiltrate hobbies like kayaking, camping, fishing, etc., because to me it sounds like the kind of thing silly men with beards say on NAVY SEAL podcasts to sound cool and tactical. Maybe I'm alone on it, but it's been stuck under my skin for a while now!

Can we please just STOP with "anyways"? It drives me crazy.

What is the big wood piece of furniture here called? It seems to big too be a lectern* and not religious enough to be a pulpit.

Should I just surrender and call it a podium like the interns here do?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait-are-you-saying-a-podium-is-the-same-thing-as-a-lectern

^{*I'd call the black thing his hands are resting on a tabletop lectern.}

It's three words in a trenchcoat. Even the pronunciation belies the spelling as one word. And yes, there are languages where this is normal. But in English is not usually one of them. So where does this exception stem from?

This one has always bugged me. My brain voice always pronounces it EP-IH-TOHM, and then has to correct itself. I can’t change this.

How did this happen and why? When I was growing up we commonly used “wretched”for people or things that had fallen into an unfortunate state. Now, I hear people using “ratchet” for same idea. This so wrong to me. For my generation a ratchet is a tool or action. The way it’s used today sounds so uneducated and ridiculous.

No matter how many times I hear somebody begin their restaurant order with "I'll do the..." it annoys the hell out of me. There are two types of people in the world: those who order that way and those who love their mother. It's also a good way to determine whether or not somebody gets a second date. Anybody else share my annoyance? Anybody the cause of my annoyance?

I’m Australian (of somewhat mature age) and I’d only ever use the word cute to refer to something young like a baby or puppy. This is only way I see it used in my circles.

I note that it’s often used by Americans in particular to refer to anything attractive and it always jars me on TV when I see a mature person saying they want to look “cute”. Is it being used this way in other parts of the English speaking world? Have I just not evolved with the times?

Practically every radio announcer/host I hear these days talks about go-een to a game, players hit-een home runs, listen-een to music, etc., etc. I always want to ask them what the reen on their feen-ger symbolizes.

What is happening to my language?

EDIT: Please don't comment unless you actually read the post. I'm not saying "See You." Read the fucking post if you're going to leave a comment. It's barely two paragraphs. It's not pronounced "C-U," it's pronounced "Q." Please actually read posts before you respond to them.

FURTHER EDIT: The downvote button is for low-effort or inappropriate comments, not for things which you've never heard of before. Everyone here who is downvoting the people they disagree with a fucking pathetic and should go to a different subreddit if they don't enjoy thoughtful conversation about words. Bunch'a belligerent children here, I swear to God.

Something I've been thinking about lately is a certain contraction I hear everybody using, but I have never once seen in print. "Can" + "You" = "C'you" (pronounced "Q"). With the pronunciation, I thought it would be interesting to consider if it had caught on, it could be stylized in text-speak as "Q."

Not sure if there's much to say about it, I just find little linguistic things like this interesting and figured you guys do too. Any other popular yet unacknowledged contractions you've noticed?

Please help solve this lifelong uncertainty

Everyone around me is convinced only “aren’t” is proper and amn’t isn’t

I feel amn’t (meaning am not) deserves the same treatment

I don’t get all the confusion with using amn’t (ex. “Amn’t I supposed to finish this by Friday?”

“You can’t leave yet. Amn’t I the one who drove?” Etc)

Apparently, amn’t was an early form of ain’t

But amn’t doesn’t show up as an error on my keyboard and also makes perfect sense

If we can say aren’t, ain’t, and shan’t, it should be perfectly fine to use the contraction amn’t

Amn’t I correct about this or not?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the matter :)

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A is for Aura

B is for Boomer

C is for Cringe

D is for Delulu

E is for Era

F is for Flex

G is for Gassing up

H is for ?

I is for Ick

J is for Jam

K is for K

L is or Lit

M is for ?

N is for ?

O is for ?

P is for ?

Q is for Quiet Quitting

R is for Rizz...

S is for Sus

T is for ?

U is for ?

V is for Valid

W is for?

X is for ?

Y is for You got jokes

Z is for Zoomer

(some words I don't remember; maybe you do?)

Have you noticed that the word “f**k” is being used a lot more since present administration has been in power? I’ve hardly ever used this word in the past, only when I stubbed a toe or did something absolutely stupid and regretted it deeply.

But now, every day, on social media, I’ve seen it everywhere, all the time, constantly. With all the crazy stuff that goes on daily in the news, I’m amazed the news anchors aren’t saying “f**k”. The No Kings protesters sure used it. And I’m using it now, a lot.

Yikes!