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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I thought about that one when I saw it. I suppose uninvited means never having been  invited whereas disinvited means the invitation had been withdrawn.
    It still grates though. Not a word I'd choose to use.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AstroAstro Posts: 433
    The word abundance has been irritating me recently, it seems to have become a buzzword over the past few years. Now when I hear it on gardening videos I wish I hadn't.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I find it difficult to be rude but if someone uses one of these daft phrases I can't help staring vacantly and saying what do you mean?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Xmas.  I'm an atheist but I just think its a horrible abbreviation.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Yviestevie said:
    Xmas.  I'm an atheist but I just think its a horrible abbreviation.
    it's just easier to type. I'd not say it, but I do type it.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I never use it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited December 2021
    I was alwasy told as a child ( at a C of E school) that the X was used as chistian sign interchangeable with a chritian cross.

    As an adult i assumed it was to do with a greek letter?

    But like Hosta says i would only type it, not say it.
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    My understanding is that chi or χ is the first letter of the Greek word for Christos or anointed (Χριστός) and was used as a sign by followers of Christianity. Xmas is therefore Christ Mass.
    Rutland, England
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...I was told it was in the past a fish (for the fisher of man) and over time lost the round head and flat tail to become an x..


    (I added the smile and twinkling eye for a[ru]tistic reasons).

    Wasn't the Chi-Rho what was put on the shields of the Roman soldiers after Constantine's dream?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Not a word, but the letters 'DHL'!
    What is the point of texting me an evening delivery slot, then attempting a delivery in the afternoon when no one was at home!
    Grrrrrrrr!!!!
    Sunny Dundee
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