The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22715   Message #249829
Posted By: GUEST,JulieF
30-Jun-00 - 11:58 AM
Thread Name: Worst New Words in the 'English' Lang.
Subject: RE: Worst New Words in the 'English' Lang.
I hate the phrase - "its a nightmare" as a soon as its said I know that whoever I've gone to see is going to moan like hell and I'm not going to get any emphusiasim for the project.

My all time least favourite word has to be poorly - local dialect meaning not well /ill , even worse is proper poorly - it just seems to trivialise it. As in being really poorly in hospital. I played the heavy parent and had the word banned at home.

Julie