word aversion

[aroraborealis]

Do you have any word aversions?

I have one: "pit" (but only when describing holes or hole-like areas (armpit, tree pit, etc, not, say, when describing the stones in fruit).

Comments

Re: It's all about the context

[drwex]

By the same token so has "junk" and any other word in common parlance.

I'm aware that Humpty Dumpty rules the day, but the question was about words that annoy me. And here and there some of the evolutions of language use annoy me. As noted above.

Re: It's all about the context

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

I know that the point was what words annoy and I'm not questioning the fact that the "u word" puts your teeth on edge since it's similar to how "plethora" annoys me in student papers. All I'm saying is that people's use of it can't be wrong if that's what people feel that it means.