What are your least favourite words?
 

Managerial.

.

And yeah, that's how I spell favourite. I is ethnic.

mindset

gonna

gotta

one of them is swell and the other is lousy ... ;)

Not words as they are, but people who use words to look important or confuse others.

As an example, I read some years ago a text about school. To describe a ball (soccer), the writer used in French 'référentiel bondissant' that can roughly translate as 'leaping reference'. In the same text, that person used some expression I can only translate as 'learner's begetter' to describe parents.

And it was a serious text, at least I assumed it to be, the source being the French Ministry of Education .

poupon

:lol:

fecund

bofus

impact (verb)

whine

sycophant

Loo.

Any of the other names for it, even the more graphic ones, are fine.

A friend at uni couldn't abide the word plimsoll.

jodhpurs :shudder:

I don't even know how to say it, but it has the effect of wet yarn.

remit.

Genre

rural

legislation