Hubby, grandbaby?

Kids, instead of children; partner instead of wife, husband; guys (what happened to all the dolls?). "Do you want it to go?" confused me once in a restaurant.

Ugh! Fur babies!
Similarly ‘hubby’ ‘the wife’ ‘grandbaby’

Babe gets right up my nose

Kids instead of children.

Oh, don’t get me started -
Hun,
You ‘Guys’ (especially from waiters in restaurants!)
Babe
Fur babies
And lots more

Furbabies is ridiculous, I think.
I can't stand to hear grown women speaking like children.

Extra word - ‘by’. Sorry!

Even worse, I think, is grand furbabies, a term used by my DD’s MiL. Makes me cringe every time. They’re by DD’s dogs!

Although more a phrase than a word, I have a friend who always ends a phone conversation with "Love you lots" Drives me mad.

I hate furbaby, grandbaby, x sleeps until x (eg 2 sleeps until we go on holiday). Also hate it when people say bless on social media or in real life when they see what see as a cute picture or story. And I really hate the terms snowflake and chav because they are so judgemental and unfair.
I would never say hubby and don't like the sound of it but don't hate it as much.
I quite like playdate and sleepover they just describe what you are going to do.

Yes, I agree, bathsheba, language is constanly evolving , but one doesn't have to like ALL the changes!
I hate 'gifted'. What is wrong with gave/given?

The following is the beginning of some doggerel that I wrote in 2015. I wont bore you with it all.

With gritted teeth and raised BP I’ve learned to compromise
When hearing words like DIGIVERSE, CHILLAX and DIARISE,
And not directly have a fit when listening to the news
For language changes all the time, though it may not me amuse!

My moisturiser’s not just smooth, it soothes and MATTIFIES
For it’s a COSMACEUTICAL, the label states - whatever that implies.
Men aren’t just mates, or drinking pals, but now they may be labelled
As having a BROMANCE, by trendy types, like an imaginary fable!
But worse maybe is a FRENEMY with which they could contend
For that’s a secret rival, who is pretending to be a friend.

etc. etc. etc !

Hubby is just awful - mine has a name!

Hate the Americanism "Can I get" instead of "please may/can I have". I always want to answer "Get it yourself"!

My cousin’s husband has just died very suddenly, 65 years old. She said when she was in the bank opening a new business account in her own name, the bank manager(female) kept addressing her as “lovely lady”. My cousin found that annoying and rather unprofessional. Would have preferred Mrs. So and So or Christian name, but didn’t feel like saying anything.

'Semester' and 'baby shower'

I agree with Septimia, good is not the answer to how are you. I also find " the other side of the pond ," when referring to America very irritating. And lots more !

Can't stand Lush either.

“Crossed the rainbow bridge” or “passed away”for died.
And most of the above too?

A young widowed friend had her sad story published in a magazine and on the front cover they used the word hubby. It was all through the article too. She was fuming as she would never used that word for her DH. At least the money was a help!

[laughs]

All of the above
Plus
Grand dog
The get go ?

Women who call me Hun or Darl.

Useful ones I've come across recently are 'grandcats' and 'granddogs'. Brief and instantly comprehensible. I have just read a Kate Atkinson Jackson Brodie novel set in Leeds, and the word 'kiddy' is used all the time. It is not gender-specific, so helps keep the mystery going, and now when I am in Leeds I realise it is indeed part of the dialect.

Furbabies makes my toes curl, when DD had cats they would have shown their disdain. They were monarchs of their realm and DD was a minion.
I loathe hun and hubby too.

The phrase, beautiful inside and out, makes me want to ‘vom’! Fur babies, fur grand babies! Hun! So many more, maybe I’m just getting old

Well, write me off because I'm certainly guilty of saying hun when talking to DH and ACs - as a sort of alternative to darling. Never have occasion write it down though and if I did might write hon.
Had never heard fur baby or grand baby until reading this thread. Horrid.
Dislike indiscriminate use of 'guys'; agree that kiddies and panties are cringeworthy, also - following Dannirae's line of thought - 'little boy's room'.