Worst words in the English language?

[Blind Guardian]

Earth
Birth
Mirth

 

[cookiecutter]

Sixth

 

[unknown]

smithy

what era and part of the country are you living in?

"Cooter" has got to be the most unclassy word I know. I stay far away from girls who openly say that word.

Also, at "cumfterble". I always say it as "cum-fer-tuh-ble" and it bothers my friends...makes more sense to me. I may also start saying wed-nez-day

 

[waif]

It doesn't get used much in speech, but I play videogames and read a certain amount of pulpy fantasy stuff so...whatever. Smith bothers me as well.

Dirigible. Glad we don't use this much.
Sixth also sucks.

 

[challenge_everything]

Will, as in the legal document. I used it all the time at work and end up saying "the will will be done next week" or something stupid like that.

Also, partner. If you're not married, and too old or too serious to use "girlfriend", you're pretty much stuck with partner and all its awkward connotations.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Milquetoast is the worst word in the English language. No other comes close.

Haha, yeah that one's pretty wretched.

I may also start saying wed-nez-day

Don't do it man, it's not worth it.

On "comfortable" - I started forcing myself around my early teens to pronounce it "com-for-ta-ble" despite that everyone around me usually says "comf-ter-ble". The stupidity of that pronunciation is just more than I can bear.

Also, partner. If you're not married, and too old or too serious to use "girlfriend", you're pretty much stuck with partner and all its awkward connotations.

I know a few people who seem to have permanent "fiancées", so I guess you can use that word to avoid the connotations of "partner" if you're willing to sacrifice a little accuracy.

 

[cookiecutter]

Will, as in the legal document. I used it all the time at work and end up saying "the will will be done next week" or something stupid like that.

Also, partner. If you're not married, and too old or too serious to use "girlfriend", you're pretty much stuck with partner and all its awkward connotations.

You could always use "significant other" but that also sounds lame

 

[Tonka Time]

You could always use "significant other" but that also sounds lame

Or the less acceptable "My bitch"....

I hate it when people pronounce mature as mah-too-er.
In my mind that is like saying na-too-er for nature.

People that say "poontang" fucking piss me off.

 

[Evil?]

jalapeno is a shitty word I hate saying.

 

[interceptor999]

jalapeno is a shitty word I hate saying.

That's Spanish.

 

[Evil?]

I considered the fact that someone would say that but decided to express my hatred for it anyway.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Proactive
Organic
Homeopathy
Wellness
Synergy
Key Performance Indicator (I know it's a term but as a group of words together it fills me with a great deal of anger so I don't care)

 

[mutantllama]

Most of those words are quite related to what my work sells.

 

[Valerie]

Elbow is strange.

I usually don't mind elision, mostly it's just a matter of convenience; but sometimes it just gets stupid with things like "prolly"

 

[SentinelSlain]

So basically Americans and other such foe can't pronounce English properly, they have to pronounce it strangely and that leads to a dislike of words which they can't really do that with.

 

[cookiecutter]

Proactive
Organic
Homeopathy
Wellness
Synergy
Key Performance Indicator (I know it's a term but as a group of words together it fills me with a great deal of anger so I don't care)

I imagined you saying all these words in a strong Crocodile Dundee type accent

 

[Zephyrus]

My only comment is that the English language is an abominable gargantua formed by falling empires and barbarian invasions and reconquests. It is a degenerate devolution of Latin, Greek and German into a bastardized tongue so unwieldy both for its native speakers and especially for those who aim to acquire it. It's only advantage is the luck that it is my own native tongue, thus granting me a better understanding of it, and the global advantages it entails.

 

[cookiecutter]

People often say how hard English is but it doesn't have arbitrary genders like most European languages and pluralizing and changing the tense of words mostly follows simple rules.

 

[unknown]

reminded me of this interesting article from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108609

 

[Zephyrus]

It certainly expresses the simplification-over-time principle, but by dropping inflections of case systems and gender it becomes a slave to syntax in order to distinguish subjects, objects and participles. For example, "dog-eating chicken" and "dog, eating chicken" sound the same in speech but have opposite meanings.

The lack of inflection requires tons of prepositions and helping verbs, thus making expression bulky and awkward.

Its systems of grammar and pronunciation are endemically plagued by exceptions to almost every rule, partly due to its uneven incorporation of classical terms, such as octopus (pl. octopodes) whereas other such words are pluralized like English.

That said, it's a fun language to study in terms of its historical development.