While watching a baseball and basketball game on TV last night, the announcers used a term that I am starting to dislike. The term they used: a buck. During the baseball game it was, "Player X is batting a buck seventy five." In the basketball game it was, "There is a buck twenty left in the third quarter." When did a buck replace one, one hundred or a minute?
I am very odd and I have a list of words that make me cringe:
Wreak
First Annual
Pic
Wreak - I can't stand when people call car crashes wrecks. I sit by a police scanner every day at work and I never hear the dispatchers using the word wreak. It is either a personal injury crash or property damage crash. I know in some instances the word cannot be avoided like shipwreak. But other then that, I don't use it.
First Annual - I believe that if an event is going to be hosted annually the first time is called inaugural. But according to this and this book it says the term is OK. I still don't like it.
Pic - It bothers me. Please just say photo or picture.
To the readers this blog are there any words that you avoid saying? Or am I just weird?
2 comments:
I HATE "first annual." Nothing is annual until it happens at least twice. I totally feel you on that one.
There are two other people at work who also hate the word "first annual". We all roll our eyes when people send in press releases with that term.
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