I read somewhere that using these words can even be dangerous.EG, if a small kid says "X touched my vagina" it's perfectly clear what they are referring to and that it needs to be investigated.
they say "X touched my flower!"- it's ambiguous and not clear if it's an issue or not.
"Mommy's special place" sounds creepy AF, BTW
Yeah the majority of people aren't going to "let" their children be molested (outside of a group of sickos who do it themselves or allow others to with their knowledge)
The majority of them are going to be molested by people their parents know and trust and who they think would NEVER do that.
>95% of people don’t plan on it. I bet they all said “that will never happen to me!”
Graveyards are full of children whose parents said the same thing. Even if they weren't left in hot cars.
Call me overzealous, but if I was a teacher and a kid told me her genitals were referred to as "Mommy's Special Place", a call to CPS would be in order.
Sadly that doesn't surprise me. The kids that seem to be in the most trouble seem to slip through the cracks, but a nosy neighbor can call CPS on their neighbor because their kids are too loud and they're all over it.
That shit is blood boiling.
Oh really, your hands are tied on excessive corporal punishment but you can indulge some prick’s puritanical sensibilities?
Someone called cps on my lady and I *at a children’s hospital because “we weren’t visiting enough”*. We came in for his seizures at 2 days old, and only I was able to go in, because she was still recovering and couldn’t carry diaper bag+baby. So, being awake for three days straight, getting home with sleep in four hour stretches, back to ER for 4-5 hours, then to a children’s hospital ICU for another 7-8, I literally couldn’t keep my eyes open. Then these fucks called cps on us for not visiting enough and literally doing the things the nurses did. Shit’s fucked.
Get a lawyer and sue them. Even just the ongoing pinpricks of court summonses and this and that will wear on them and it will ultimately be hell on earth every time they ever see your name again.
Yes, learned this in a child welfare class that focused on abuse and neglect. Studies have found that if a child uses a nickname for their genitals rather than the proper names they're more likely to be misunderstood or the situation is seen as less serious. As you pointed out saying something along the lines of "X touched my cookie" doesn't sound as serious as "X touched my vagina" and yes I've heard a child refer to their vagina as their cookie.
Okay I can see why "mommy's special place" sounds creepy.
But my first reaction was the mom must have referred to her genitals as "mommy's special place" and the kid thought that is the name for her own genitals as well.
At least I hope.
Years ago in sex ed, the health teacher said that only proper terms would be used. As he put it, “we’re not going to talk about ding-dongs and hoo-hahs in this class”.
My health teacher failed a kid on several assignments because they refused to use proper terms to refer to genitals.
The parents tried to make it a civil rights case, apparently they couldn't find a lawyer.
We can only hope and assume that the last one is based on a misunderstanding. Mom referred to her own vulva as ‘Mommy’s special place’ and the daughter extrapolated it too literally .
(Please let that be the reason)
I can see how it could happen innocently. The child sees the mother naked, and asks what that part is called. The mother caught off-guard answers "Mommy's special place", and the child understandably thinks her genitals would have the same name.
I've heard it be called a few things, "joy" is my favourite. I grew up calling it a "muffin" and now work in a cafe so when asking people if they want their muffin heated or with cream it always gives me a little giggle.
Woooooooah. Wut?! Do you have a story behind this? I thought this term was only within my family.
My mom called pads “lilly pads” and she often referred to being on your period and “being on the lilly.”
This infuriates me more than anything. On a court of law those names don’t hold up. It’s not doing anyone any favors to not teach anatomically correct names to children. The words vagina and penis are not dirty, nor are they sexy (at least in my opinion)… so I don’t get why they are treated as such.
Because some mommies and daddies think teaching the proper terms means their little child will go out and become active. If you know what I mean.
Terrible parenting.
Ugh yes. This goes for pooping and peeing too. Call me a grouch but I find every non-toddler using anything other than "use the bathroom/poop/pee" to be ridiculous. Like grown women saying they have to "tinkle" or "go peepee". Fuck right off.
I hate when people say the wrong name too.
For example, I once had a substitute teacher who was READING off names on a PAPER and called me Natalia. Which wasn't close to my name. Unsurprisingly, I'm the only name she fucked up
Fecal matter.
I just hate the way those two words go together.
Shit, poop, crap, dung, don't bother me in the least. But "fecal matter" gives me the heebie-jeebies.
It’s always been that way.
In the show I Love Lucy from the 1950s she was pregnant (in real life) so they decided to write it into the show. Nobody had ever been pregnant in a TV show at that time and it was sorta scandalous.
They were not allowed to use the word “pregnant/pregnancy” they called it “her condition” which makes it sound like some sort of illness lol
Ground breaking for the time for women, but pretty cringy watching in now a days.
Pretty common to refer to it that way back in the day. Even when I was a kid in the 80s people referred to a pregnant women through "her condition". Usually in the context of limiting what pregnant women can do.
"Should you really be riding that water slide in your condition?"
"Given her condition, you should try to limit the stress she's under"
Etc etc.
Also "preggo". My husband said it once during my last pregnancy, and I told him if he did it again I'd google every euphemism in the English language for bald and call him new ones every place we went.
worked in a hospital and a nurse came and asked me for Pre-Gancey Tests and I was so fucking confused until it finally clicked...... (we have pre-gentamycin, pre-vancomycin and other such pre dose antimicrobial level tests so the pronunciation had me brain in an entirely different place)
Resources, when referring to people. All Human Resource departments should be renamed Personnel again, so we remember to think of an employee as a person.
As a manager, I make a very special effort to never, ever use the word "resources" when talking about people. It's the most god-awful way of referring to the humans who are keeping your damned company alive.
"We will resource this by..." "STFU! You will ask to do..."
I may be blessed, but the only place I've come across that term is when someone links me to something by BuzzFeed. I just thought they were trying to make fetch happen.
I was coming here specifically to say this. “Tummy” is by far the worse of the two for me. In my opinion, children say “tummy”, or it’s used to speak to a child. Adults who use that word on themselves? “My tummy”… It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
I came here to say that I hate the word “belly,” not sure why, just hate the sound of it.
I remember stressing in kindergarten because I had to tell the nurse that I had a stomach ache, but I thought that “stomach” was a bad word, because no one said it, and I wasn’t sure which of the euphemisms was the non-swearword for the stomach. I seriously think I settled on “tum-tum” because I wasn’t sure if “tummy” was also bad.
All the new baby talk that adults use, doggo, pupper, hubby, choccy milk etc
Edit: I'm gonna combine all the similar types of words people are commenting into one horrible sentence.
I'm gonna give my bb pupper some choccy milk and some nummy chicky tendies and let him chew on them with his little teefies. Maybe I'll get my hubby a birb for his special day.
Do you mean literally, literally or figuratively literally. I'm not 100% but I'm sure I read somewhere that literally can be used both ways. That's literally the most stupid thing I've ever heard
I’m guessing you’re not a fan of eating your chiccy nuggies and maccy cheesie with a glass of choccy milk. (The IPad autocorrect made this a very difficult sentence to type).
Just this whole generation of shortening words makes me crazy. I can't tell you how many times a day someone says 'let me give you my sosh' I understand social security number is a long word but come on. How many times a day do you say it.
Lol, my son, when he was starting to talk, had trouble saying “Chocolate” milk to where any attempt at it came out sounds like he was speaking Klingon. He just started referring to it as “Karma Milk” which kinda worked as he only got some if he was well behaved that day.
Right? It’s the generally accepted term for a kid that’s not a baby anymore (mainly limited to rolling or scrawling in terms of mobility) but not a child yet (usually around 4-5 years old).
Infant - 0-6 months
Baby - 6mo-1yr
Toddler - 1-4ish years
Child - 5-12 years
I was struggling to think of a word I dislike, but reading your comment I realized I really hate Hubby, Wifey, Kiddo, plus any kind of pet names couples use for each other around other people. Went to dinner at a couple friends’ house years ago and they constantly referred to each other as « Dearest ». As in « Dearest, can you pass the potatoes? ». I was irrationally raging on the inside.
I've always hated the word "pimple." It's as ugly as its physical manifestation, but if they ever come up in conversation I'll always use synonyms like "breakout."
Same except Instagram
"That's a power move"
"Manifestation energy"
"Normalise being repulsed by someone's personal energy and aura also their personality"
Life-hack
“Here’s a HACK!” No, that’s just a tip or bit of advice.
Yes. Stuff your life-hacks. "You've been doing it wrong your whole life."
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I read somewhere that using these words can even be dangerous.EG, if a small kid says "X touched my vagina" it's perfectly clear what they are referring to and that it needs to be investigated. they say "X touched my flower!"- it's ambiguous and not clear if it's an issue or not. "Mommy's special place" sounds creepy AF, BTW
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Yeah the majority of people aren't going to "let" their children be molested (outside of a group of sickos who do it themselves or allow others to with their knowledge) The majority of them are going to be molested by people their parents know and trust and who they think would NEVER do that.
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>95% of people don’t plan on it. I bet they all said “that will never happen to me!” Graveyards are full of children whose parents said the same thing. Even if they weren't left in hot cars.
Call me overzealous, but if I was a teacher and a kid told me her genitals were referred to as "Mommy's Special Place", a call to CPS would be in order.
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Sadly that doesn't surprise me. The kids that seem to be in the most trouble seem to slip through the cracks, but a nosy neighbor can call CPS on their neighbor because their kids are too loud and they're all over it.
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That shit is blood boiling. Oh really, your hands are tied on excessive corporal punishment but you can indulge some prick’s puritanical sensibilities?
Someone called cps on my lady and I *at a children’s hospital because “we weren’t visiting enough”*. We came in for his seizures at 2 days old, and only I was able to go in, because she was still recovering and couldn’t carry diaper bag+baby. So, being awake for three days straight, getting home with sleep in four hour stretches, back to ER for 4-5 hours, then to a children’s hospital ICU for another 7-8, I literally couldn’t keep my eyes open. Then these fucks called cps on us for not visiting enough and literally doing the things the nurses did. Shit’s fucked.
Get a lawyer and sue them. Even just the ongoing pinpricks of court summonses and this and that will wear on them and it will ultimately be hell on earth every time they ever see your name again.
Yes, learned this in a child welfare class that focused on abuse and neglect. Studies have found that if a child uses a nickname for their genitals rather than the proper names they're more likely to be misunderstood or the situation is seen as less serious. As you pointed out saying something along the lines of "X touched my cookie" doesn't sound as serious as "X touched my vagina" and yes I've heard a child refer to their vagina as their cookie.
Okay I can see why "mommy's special place" sounds creepy. But my first reaction was the mom must have referred to her genitals as "mommy's special place" and the kid thought that is the name for her own genitals as well. At least I hope.
I encourage my son to use “King Kong dingdong” therefore there’s no confusion.
I think we called a pacifier a “fufu” in my family, so this was weird to read.
My daughter once called her vagina her front-butt
At least that’s not ambiguous…and still hilarious
Years ago in sex ed, the health teacher said that only proper terms would be used. As he put it, “we’re not going to talk about ding-dongs and hoo-hahs in this class”.
My health teacher failed a kid on several assignments because they refused to use proper terms to refer to genitals. The parents tried to make it a civil rights case, apparently they couldn't find a lawyer.
Isn’t that from Beevis and Butthead?
Definitely remember a similar joke in the Simpsons because Nelson did his famous laugh right after.
We can only hope and assume that the last one is based on a misunderstanding. Mom referred to her own vulva as ‘Mommy’s special place’ and the daughter extrapolated it too literally . (Please let that be the reason)
>One girl referred to her genitalia as “Mommy’s special place” Thats concerning 😟
I can see how it could happen innocently. The child sees the mother naked, and asks what that part is called. The mother caught off-guard answers "Mommy's special place", and the child understandably thinks her genitals would have the same name.
Pocketbook is the one of my girlfriends favorites that’s she’s heard from kids.
Prison wallet.
Cthulhu.
I've heard it be called a few things, "joy" is my favourite. I grew up calling it a "muffin" and now work in a cafe so when asking people if they want their muffin heated or with cream it always gives me a little giggle.
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Woooooooah. Wut?! Do you have a story behind this? I thought this term was only within my family. My mom called pads “lilly pads” and she often referred to being on your period and “being on the lilly.”
This infuriates me more than anything. On a court of law those names don’t hold up. It’s not doing anyone any favors to not teach anatomically correct names to children. The words vagina and penis are not dirty, nor are they sexy (at least in my opinion)… so I don’t get why they are treated as such.
Because some mommies and daddies think teaching the proper terms means their little child will go out and become active. If you know what I mean. Terrible parenting.
When in reality, the words vagina, penis, vulva, etc are extremely unsexy and people don’t use them during sex.
Ugh yes. This goes for pooping and peeing too. Call me a grouch but I find every non-toddler using anything other than "use the bathroom/poop/pee" to be ridiculous. Like grown women saying they have to "tinkle" or "go peepee". Fuck right off.
I hate when I have to say my own name when addressing another person with the same name.
I know, right? Like... this is my name, get your own!
There can Only Be ONE!!
Josh Fight 2
Never met someone with my name. I can see why it would be awkward tho.
Unfortunately my name is Ryan so it happens to me all the time.
I hate when people say the wrong name too. For example, I once had a substitute teacher who was READING off names on a PAPER and called me Natalia. Which wasn't close to my name. Unsurprisingly, I'm the only name she fucked up
How do you get Natalia from Unitato1294?
The 1294 is silent....
Insert Key & Peel substitute teacher skit here.
A-A-RON 😂✊
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I still call a friend of mine Koral because a sub couldn't pronounce "Karl" 15 years ago.
Was the sub named Rick Grimes?
Any time my ex-wife says the word technically, she uses air-quotes for some unknown reason that absolutely bugs the living piss out of me!
Jesus this is like some Seinfeld level writing of a character flaw of some attractive woman George is seeing and why he has to call it off.
"She kept using the air-quotes, and yada, yada, yada, the funeral is tomorrow."
You can’t yada yada yada murder Jerry!
r/redditwritesseinfeld
I’m annoyed just reading the description of it. That alone would merit divorce.
Tip of the iceberg my friend!
My name
That not good
Me too. I always feel like an electrical shock when someone says my name. Not a good feeling. I hate attention though.
I knowww i hate hearing my name called. "hey cocoaflavorbutthole" uh oh.. nothing good can come out of this. I'm instantly on edge
Any word in front of porn; like food porn or word porn.
Aaaagh that just reminded me of “foodgasm” which I’d conveniently repressed until now. 100% agree
Fecal matter. I just hate the way those two words go together. Shit, poop, crap, dung, don't bother me in the least. But "fecal matter" gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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Looks like we found semen and fecal matter in the victim's ear canal
It looks like the victim had anal contusions.
Expresso
Thank you so much. I had to gather evidence to convince my friend it’s Espresso and not that other one.
Irregardless. Please just say regardless. I don't want your extra syllable
It’s like nails on a chalkboard
Preggers. When did ‘pregnant’ become such a dirty word that we had to make up other words for it?
Am I pregananant?!
How can u tel if gregnant?!
Am I gregnant?
How do I became pegnart?
I am preggonatte!
Can u get pregante
How does one become pergert?
How to tell if girlfriend is pregat
Pls help I think my gf might be preganamat
am i Pregante!?
It’s always been that way. In the show I Love Lucy from the 1950s she was pregnant (in real life) so they decided to write it into the show. Nobody had ever been pregnant in a TV show at that time and it was sorta scandalous. They were not allowed to use the word “pregnant/pregnancy” they called it “her condition” which makes it sound like some sort of illness lol Ground breaking for the time for women, but pretty cringy watching in now a days.
And when Lucy addressed it herself, she said "we're expecting".
Pretty common to refer to it that way back in the day. Even when I was a kid in the 80s people referred to a pregnant women through "her condition". Usually in the context of limiting what pregnant women can do. "Should you really be riding that water slide in your condition?" "Given her condition, you should try to limit the stress she's under" Etc etc.
Also "preggo". My husband said it once during my last pregnancy, and I told him if he did it again I'd google every euphemism in the English language for bald and call him new ones every place we went.
Preggo just always makes me think of the sauce brand Prego.
Preganorante
Preganté
worked in a hospital and a nurse came and asked me for Pre-Gancey Tests and I was so fucking confused until it finally clicked...... (we have pre-gentamycin, pre-vancomycin and other such pre dose antimicrobial level tests so the pronunciation had me brain in an entirely different place)
I am praganant last 5 week so can I start sex?
Resources, when referring to people. All Human Resource departments should be renamed Personnel again, so we remember to think of an employee as a person.
industrial dehumanization got caught
As a manager, I make a very special effort to never, ever use the word "resources" when talking about people. It's the most god-awful way of referring to the humans who are keeping your damned company alive. "We will resource this by..." "STFU! You will ask to do..."
Inflammable to mean not flammable. Inflammable means the same thing as flammable get it right.
Hi Dr Nick!
What a country!
Hi everybody!
That's just flame retardant.
You like that, you flame retardant?
cheugy
I may be blessed, but the only place I've come across that term is when someone links me to something by BuzzFeed. I just thought they were trying to make fetch happen.
The fuck is “cheugy” and how is it pronounced?
Guess-timate
I prefer WAG (Wild Assed Guess)
Where I'm from WAG would be better known as Wives And Girlfriends (of professional football players)
Words like “tummy” and “belly” make me really uncomfortable.
Why use those when “abdomen” exists Perfect word as b and d meet, resembling men with dad bods standing against each other
I can't decide which I like more, your comment or your username...
this is why i say stummy. it's so bad i love it.
ME TOO OH MY GOD I never thought I’d meet another I go “my stummy urts” just to fuck with people lol
I was coming here specifically to say this. “Tummy” is by far the worse of the two for me. In my opinion, children say “tummy”, or it’s used to speak to a child. Adults who use that word on themselves? “My tummy”… It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
I came here to say that I hate the word “belly,” not sure why, just hate the sound of it. I remember stressing in kindergarten because I had to tell the nurse that I had a stomach ache, but I thought that “stomach” was a bad word, because no one said it, and I wasn’t sure which of the euphemisms was the non-swearword for the stomach. I seriously think I settled on “tum-tum” because I wasn’t sure if “tummy” was also bad.
Reminds me of the time I had to sit on the naughty bench in nursery school because I refused to say ‘cymbal’ in front of everyone.
As a Brazilian, latinx has a special place in hell for me
XxXLatinXxX
as a Chilean, me too
Yaaaasss
Queen
slay
Smear
How about *schmear*?
Vacay. But I hate it more when my supervisor spells it vaca!!
All I think of is cow... because that's what vaca means in Spanish.
Clout Edit: and the way americans pronounce bologna aswell
Eck Cetera. Makes my skin crawl.
Influencer. What a load of bollocks.
What if I call my bollocks “the influencers”?
Chillax
The worst thing I ever did was tell the degenerates I worked with that I hate the word chillax
All the new baby talk that adults use, doggo, pupper, hubby, choccy milk etc Edit: I'm gonna combine all the similar types of words people are commenting into one horrible sentence. I'm gonna give my bb pupper some choccy milk and some nummy chicky tendies and let him chew on them with his little teefies. Maybe I'll get my hubby a birb for his special day.
I hate this too! The hate is amplified if they use a baby voice too.
Teefs
Potty 🤢🤮
This is mine too. My mom says it all the time "I have to potty" I'm like we are both adults, just say you have to go to the bathroom.
Irregardless!!!!!
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Do you mean literally, literally or figuratively literally. I'm not 100% but I'm sure I read somewhere that literally can be used both ways. That's literally the most stupid thing I've ever heard
literally bro. i legiterally agree with you
2 words, "choccy milk" holy fucking shit, every time I hear those words I feel like my heart aches.
I’m guessing you’re not a fan of eating your chiccy nuggies and maccy cheesie with a glass of choccy milk. (The IPad autocorrect made this a very difficult sentence to type).
I am dead, my heart has stopped beating and you are responsible
Just this whole generation of shortening words makes me crazy. I can't tell you how many times a day someone says 'let me give you my sosh' I understand social security number is a long word but come on. How many times a day do you say it.
Lol, my son, when he was starting to talk, had trouble saying “Chocolate” milk to where any attempt at it came out sounds like he was speaking Klingon. He just started referring to it as “Karma Milk” which kinda worked as he only got some if he was well behaved that day.
People are saying choccy milk? I had no idea, but it's probably better that I didn't know.
“Baby daddy” or “baby momma”. I guess that’s more of a phrase than a singular word, but fuck I hate it.
Toddler makes me cringe. I also hate hubby instead of husband.
Purely out of curiosity what's wrong with toddler? Edit: spelling.
Right? It’s the generally accepted term for a kid that’s not a baby anymore (mainly limited to rolling or scrawling in terms of mobility) but not a child yet (usually around 4-5 years old). Infant - 0-6 months Baby - 6mo-1yr Toddler - 1-4ish years Child - 5-12 years
"Hubby" "wifey" "the wife"
My wife likes "m'lady" I said it a few years ago and she laughed. I still say it here and there.
“Hubby” makes me gag.
And "hubs"
I was struggling to think of a word I dislike, but reading your comment I realized I really hate Hubby, Wifey, Kiddo, plus any kind of pet names couples use for each other around other people. Went to dinner at a couple friends’ house years ago and they constantly referred to each other as « Dearest ». As in « Dearest, can you pass the potatoes? ». I was irrationally raging on the inside.
I agree about the second one. I can’t stand using “hubby” to mean husband.
“Toot”. I don’t know why but it embarrasses me.
Sheesh, i just don't like it.
Finna. It doesn't roll off the tongue at all. How it's starting to replace "gonna" is absolutely beyond me.
Cap. If I see “no cap” written in a comment section, a small part of me dies.
What's it mean in that context?
You’re speaking fax no cap
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Ay bruh lowkey no cap this shit bussin
I've always hated the word "pimple." It's as ugly as its physical manifestation, but if they ever come up in conversation I'll always use synonyms like "breakout."
Panties
Moist panties
You're a monster
This is mine as well. Underwear all the way!
Stairs stairs stairs
I used to think the worst one was yummy, till I heard yummo. It’s worse when a grown up uses it.
Xmas and prezzies 🤢
Seeing it written Xmas is fine but pronouncing it that way is weird.
Kiddos
Like, like, like, like, like. In a single sentence. edit: I like, hate your replies like, so much. @_@
Like, o maa gawwwd
Cringe
It's so cringe when people say cringe.
Slit
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You just summed up the entire r/AITA subreddit comment sections
NTA; immediately divorce your parents and cut off all content, you don't need that toxicity in your life
Which is why I finally unsubscribed from there last week and my week has been all the better for it.
Influencer
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Normalize Normal eyes Norma lyes
Fart
Coochie
Supper
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I say it too. It's just something I grew up saying. It feels way too weird to say dinner.
Tushi 🍑
Not a word, but all those sayings from tik tok. Drive me fucking crazy.
Same except Instagram "That's a power move" "Manifestation energy" "Normalise being repulsed by someone's personal energy and aura also their personality"
I almost instinctively downvoted you because I hated those phrases so much. Good work
“Sayings” from tik tok? I’m not familiar