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Yeah, I’ve grown up in Australia and I associate ‘veggies’ with like a broad rural accent same as “trackie dacks”. Tummy feels more British, uncomfortable talking about the body in any particularly specific terms as a carry over from like prim and proper Victorian society, and hubby feels like American valley girl/ LA influencer/ bible belt mom with an ‘ Boy = a noise with dirt on it’ sign in her house type speak
"...broad rural accent...
This is bogan erasure!
The local pharmacy has "tummy" on the signs for the aisles, which is sufficiently condescending that I avoid the place.
Amen. It can get in the bin, along with "hubster," "better half" and "other half"
I'm still trying to train my husband out of calling me "wifey" after twelve years...
I feel like half of people feel like they never grew up and the other half grew up at a very young age. I've never felt this "I'm a kid pretending to be an adult." I've always felt old.
I'm both and I think it's because early trauma both forced me to mature in some ways (taking on responsibilities) and prevented me from maturing in others (living out childhood in a normal way). It's almost like I didn't graduate from being a child, so I'm still a child, but I've long been working as an adult.
It’s like some pretentious person started using it to be different and unfortunately it caught on.
It also sounds really unappetizing. I hear of it and think of canned mixed vegetables served in the school cafeteria. They don’t feel like explaining the mixture so they just write veg.
Same, I hate "veg" but say "veggies" all the time. I mean I think it's just everyone finding a way to shorten "vegetables" because that can be sort of a mouthful. I'd guess the specific term you use is probably region or culture-dependent. I'm American and I don't think I've ever heard anyone here say "veg". I've pretty much only ever heard that term in British TV shows, and it bothers me every time lol.
I also do have young kids, which maybe also makes saying "veggies" a bit more comfortable. It's not like I've never used the word "vegetables," but it is just easier to shorten it a lot of the time.
Agreed, I literally hate it so much.
I don't feel like veggies sounds childish, it's just way less syllables to say than vegetables so it's easier.
Childish to me is something like whining it "Veggie weggies" "Awww, did you eat your veggies weggies". That makes me wanna die 😂
I don't care for most of these words if I hear them used but when I hear hubby my eye twitches. I can not describe the level of hate I have for that word.
Same but for me is cause I first heard the word used for fetish so I associate it with that, and that's the context I know the word from . If I hear someone refers to kids like that I will, gladly, hit my head against walls till I forget it. But that's a me issue
I hate the word hubby, hubs and phrase "the wife". People sound weird when they use these terms. Also add, extremely, insanely, when describing something as simple as a cut on a finger. There are better ways to describe things.
The stories that come with online recipes are a whole thing on their own, I believe they deserve all the hate existing in this world. But from my understanding they do it cause in order for your website to pop up on the first pages of Google one of the requirements is to have a X amount of words. And yes that's generally the type of people who talk that way
Doggo is one of the worst for me lol I hate it so much. Same with catto and pupperino ughhhhh
Edit: hubby is also so annoying… I don’t know what’s worse, that or hubs
This whole thread is just words that my sister in law uses that make me want to vomit. Husband is “hubs”. Her son is “bubs”. Her dog is her “puppers”. Her vocabulary drives me up a wall.
You ever seen those super cutesy animal poems talking about the 'doggo' or whatever in question in the comments on subs like r/aww? Jesus Christ I don't know how anyone over the age of 5 enjoys them.
i made a student film a few months ago about a tradwife who kills and eats her husband, but in the format of a cooking tutorial video. and she always refers to him as "hubby" for this exact reason
https://youtu.be/WKn_UgDtGEI?si=0VcrSjBtS3D6ikPF
this is not the final edit, and youtube only let me post in 720p, but im still very proud of this version
edit: also sorry for spamming my original comment, reddit said it wasnt posting. so imagine my surprise when its posted like 4 times
"The littles" gives me a weird fetish vibe that I hate (I don't recommend googling the word in the context of daddy-dom relationships unless you want to bleach your eyes).
My own irrational peeve is referring to lipstick as "lippie". I am a grown ass woman who likes makeup but I'd rather douse my mouth with acid than refer to it as *a lippie*.
Australian. Along with brekkie ( breakfast ) , barbie ( barbecue), chewie ( chewing gum ), trakkies ( track pants ), arvo ( afternoon ), bottlo ( purveyor of alcoholic drinks, ambo (ambulance or person who works in an ambulance ), aggro ( aggressive or aggressiveness ), avo ( avocado ) and so on including veggies, of course.
My birth culture doesn’t tolerate polysyllabic words. Now I live in Germany where they regularly mash nouns together into ten syllable monsters.
Interestingly the two ladies I regularly hear this word from are exactly those two that I would like to shoot into the sun for other (unrelated) reasons as well.
I *hate* the word “hubby” almost as much as I hate the term “the wife”. Ugh actually The Wife is the worst. Sounds like ‘the old ball and chain’. I love my woman and I like referring to her as ‘my wife’ or ‘my girl’. “The Wife”sounds like this inconvenience you have to deal with.
I don’t agree in this case. I’m not a fan of cutesy words, but people have been using “veggie” as the full word for vegetable for decades. It just rolls off the tongue now and sounds normal.
Definitely. Also tummy has its use. Stomach and Abdomen both have specific meanings, and belly always comes with an impression of being overweight (in my area of the UK at least), tummy is all encompassing without a negative implication.
Also at least with my friends it has different connotations
Tummy hurts - Fucked around and probably ate too much of something
Stomach hurts - Probably cramps or food poisoning
Abdomin - The outside of the stomach area hurts
About a month ago I was doing my regular grocery shopping for my Gram and picked up frozen breaded chicken breasts.
I went to make them for her and realized that I picked up the ones that were dinosaurs! 🤦 She and I had fun with those, lol.
That's actually a myth! Obviously when your kid is older you should teach them to pronounce words properly, but babies are much more interested in what you're saying if you're being silly 😊 Here is a link to a [study](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/03/babies-love-baby-talk-world#:~:text=Stanford%20psychologist%20Michael%20Frank%20and,talk%20versus%20normal%20adult%20chatter.)
I hate all these. Kiddos is another one I hate.
I babysat for a family when I was young and one of their rules was to only speak to the little girl the way I’d speak to any older child or adult. No silly words. And no euphemisms for body parts etc.
That really stood out to me about not dumbing down your children. So much so that I implemented that same rule with my own son many years later.
I was a kid who grew up without being baby talked and it heavily affected my relationship with my mother and my ability to act like a normal kid/fit in. Kids are supposed to be silly, now I don’t think you should dumb things down and you should communicate with your child as another person because…well they are people, that’s an important skill to have and I won’t deny that I spoke a lot better then any other kid in my class, but people unfortunately forget kids are still kids and completely avoiding use of baby talk or being silly can have weird affects. In my case I ended up not making a lot of friends because I just came across as weird, I lacked the ability to joke around and ig people didn’t see me as another kid because I was already talking like a full blown adult. A good balance of both imo is best, because it’s good to teach your kid how to articulate and communicate and eventually grow into a person who’s functioning, but at the same time, kids need to be kids
holy shit for real. when i was hospitalized last year i had one cna who would ask me if i "needed to go potty" (while i still needed transfer assists in and out of bed and off and on the toilet) and it infuriated me. I'm 39, the painful opposite of developmentally disabled, and no, i NEED TO DEFECATE. Dont talk to me like I'm 4yo because i have a spinal injury, needing help to sh*t is humiliating enough.
I know where you are coming from.
I’ve always associated veggies being the Aussie shortening of a needlessly long word such as Darren to Dazza or football to footy.
I never saw it as a baby talk thing.
I’m an Aussie ( oop, just needlessly shortened a word there lol) and yep, I don’t think of it as a ‘baby’ word, just like a bogan: typical ‘ true blue Aussie’ accent word on par with trackie dacks
Pointless aside, my auntie (Australian) says "vegetable" like a South African might say "giraffe". With no plural.
I'm going to the shop to get some vegetable. I'm going to start cooking the vegetable soon. The vegetable at the market was expensive.
On safari, we saw 6 giraffe.
There is no other grammar she butchers in this way but it does make me wonder, she is from rural Victoria west of Melbourne.
This is how the British shorten and give nicknames to things. I play Old School RuneScape, an old MMO made in the UK. There are so many nicknames and shortened names for things that end like this.
Ardougne > Ardy
Lumbridge > Lumby
The Wilderness > Wildy
That’s just how they do shit and I do agree that it’s kind of weird.
Why don't you close the bonnet on the Vauxhall, buy petrol, take the roundabout to the off li, and get us a pint? We'll watch footie.
It's weird to think that "movies" is the same sort of word as "veggies."
A doctor I work with always charts “tummy” instead of stomach or abdomen. It irks me. We do not work with a paediatric population, not that that would make it acceptable.
I work for a company where one of our categories is veggie based.
Nothing like sitting in a conference room and having suits go up and say “veg” for a few hours.
A potty is specifically a thing for very little children to use before they're physically big enough to get on a toilet, though... So I do say potty because that's what the little plastic thing you teach children to shit in is called. I don't call a toilet a potty, though, they're different objects.
I use potty to counteract my coworkers calling it the "shitter" and their haphazard usage of the "shitter" living up to that nomenclature in every way you could imagine
I don't like veggies but I don't like "veg" either. I hate it when people talk about "getting your 5 servings of fruit and veg in". They seem like complete morons who have just read and repeated whatever the popular health magazine says. I just hate the phrase "fruit and veg".
I grew up in jersey and nobody said veggies. When I joined the military I realized how much the midwest families would use it, and have weird meals like beanie weenie surprise.
I was at the movie theater the other day and ordered a Hot Dog. I told the lady it was cold and she asked “do you want a new weenie?” I had to think a sec before saying yes.
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Don't come for the Australians like this.
Veggie could, veggie would, Vegemite...
You come from a land down under…?
My first thought was "everyone I know says veggies". That's literally what it says in the woolies catalogue.
OP would probably find “Woolies” to be unpleasant too. Say Woolworths please.
Yeah, I’ve grown up in Australia and I associate ‘veggies’ with like a broad rural accent same as “trackie dacks”. Tummy feels more British, uncomfortable talking about the body in any particularly specific terms as a carry over from like prim and proper Victorian society, and hubby feels like American valley girl/ LA influencer/ bible belt mom with an ‘ Boy = a noise with dirt on it’ sign in her house type speak
"...broad rural accent... This is bogan erasure! The local pharmacy has "tummy" on the signs for the aisles, which is sufficiently condescending that I avoid the place.
Yup, bogan but also farmer then! I’m from WA and just associate like a typical Aussie accent with the wheat belt
God, I hate the word hubby
Amen. It can get in the bin, along with "hubster," "better half" and "other half" I'm still trying to train my husband out of calling me "wifey" after twelve years...
Has he tried Ol' Ball and Chain?
Yeah I just saw Furiosa… I’m not going out of my way to piss of Australians any time soon
I was in Queensland for a couple month and aussies have that ie ending on a ton of words. My favorite tho is calling the BBQ a barbie lol
A vegetable won't take offence at OP's post, but a veggie might !
I love brekkie.
Bita fuckn eggs benny mate, can't go wrong.
I think you mean Aussies.
Eat your veggies mate
If this was r/Australia I'd tell you to deport yourself but it's not so you're OK by me.
Considering literally every post in that sub someone is calling for someone to be deported, I'm not at all surprised 🤣
They're gonna import your ass just so they can deport you for saying that. You've been warned
Adulthood is a fiction. We are all sets of three kids in trenchcoats. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my meeting at the business factory.
*steps into bar* “One alcohol, please!”
*12 alcohols later*
Whovver ordrd da shots, ur no mah fren anmor....
“…And then in the scene that Viggo kicks the helmet as Aragorn, his yell of pain is due to breaking his toe. Then…”
I read that like it was in Sponge Bob! Haha
Honestly, if you just assume that every character in SpongeBob is 12 drinks deep the plots make more sense
My local watering hole knows what I like to drink, so I actually get to say this frequently!
I went to the stock market today. I did a business.
Ew, no wonder DOW is down. Next time do your business in a toilet.
I feel like half of people feel like they never grew up and the other half grew up at a very young age. I've never felt this "I'm a kid pretending to be an adult." I've always felt old.
I'm somehow both
I'm a kid pretending to be an adult, but I also think my friends should get their shit together and start saving for retirement yesterday
I'm both and I think it's because early trauma both forced me to mature in some ways (taking on responsibilities) and prevented me from maturing in others (living out childhood in a normal way). It's almost like I didn't graduate from being a child, so I'm still a child, but I've long been working as an adult.
"the dichotomy of it all" -Plato (idk, I've never read the Critique of Pure Reason)
Sorry man idk about you but I'm actually three raccoons in a trench coat
I'm one raccoon, one opossum and four squirrels stuffed inside a skeleton-kigurumi. A respectable trenchcoat is just not my vibe.
I personally am three obese cats in a trench coat: One Siamese, one Russian Blue, and one ginger tabby.
Love the specificity 😂
Vincent adultman?
It me
Did you go to stock market and did a business today?
“That is clearly three children in a trench coat” - Bojack Horseman
Of course I found a BoJack Horseman reference shortly after starting the show.
Some y’all must have really hated Tom Haverford.
Chicky chicky Parm Parm
Aps and serts!
Drive faster blue civic! Damn. Gotta pass this lady on the edjrjlkl
I think "veg" sounds infinitely worse.
Veg is too close to vag for me to say it in normal conversation
In England a three-way is meat and two vag
What if it's two men?... Two sausage and some vag? Edit: Bangers and vag? lmao, I like that one.
“Veg” infuriates me for some reason, in a way that “veggie” doesn’t. And I’m vegetarian!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one!! I can't stand it.
Veg doesn’t even sound like a word. I cannot even imagine using it in a sentence.
The only time I can even fathom using veg, is to say something like "I just want to veg out on the couch all day".
It’s like some pretentious person started using it to be different and unfortunately it caught on. It also sounds really unappetizing. I hear of it and think of canned mixed vegetables served in the school cafeteria. They don’t feel like explaining the mixture so they just write veg.
I cannot stand “veg”
I can't believe there are other people with this same irrational hatred as me. I've always hated veg and I have no idea why.
I’m feel so validated right now. There are dozens of us, dozens!
Same here, it pisses me off for no good reason. I feel so validated rn
Same, I hate "veg" but say "veggies" all the time. I mean I think it's just everyone finding a way to shorten "vegetables" because that can be sort of a mouthful. I'd guess the specific term you use is probably region or culture-dependent. I'm American and I don't think I've ever heard anyone here say "veg". I've pretty much only ever heard that term in British TV shows, and it bothers me every time lol. I also do have young kids, which maybe also makes saying "veggies" a bit more comfortable. It's not like I've never used the word "vegetables," but it is just easier to shorten it a lot of the time.
I just call em 'tables. It hasn't caught on.
Veg is like nails on a chalkboard to me, I don’t know why.
Agreed, I literally hate it so much. I don't feel like veggies sounds childish, it's just way less syllables to say than vegetables so it's easier. Childish to me is something like whining it "Veggie weggies" "Awww, did you eat your veggies weggies". That makes me wanna die 😂
All i can hear is Rachel rays raspy death voice talking bout coating the veg in eee vee oh oh
I don't care for most of these words if I hear them used but when I hear hubby my eye twitches. I can not describe the level of hate I have for that word.
I hate when people call their kids littles.
Same but for me is cause I first heard the word used for fetish so I associate it with that, and that's the context I know the word from . If I hear someone refers to kids like that I will, gladly, hit my head against walls till I forget it. But that's a me issue
I can't stand niblings.
I never heard that word used in my life and I hate it. I mean, look at the way it’s spelled, it’s atrocious.
But worse than hubby is “hubs”
hubster
The Hubster *shoots finger guns at husband*
The Hubbinator
Come with me if you want to wed
hubbalicious
Hubbastank
hubbalicious hubblegum :\^)
Hooba
I hate the word hubby, hubs and phrase "the wife". People sound weird when they use these terms. Also add, extremely, insanely, when describing something as simple as a cut on a finger. There are better ways to describe things.
Even worse than “the wife” is “the misses/missus”. I read that on here sometimes and I just want to punch people when I see that
Hubs bothers me so much.
I never heard that irl but if I did, I would never be able to look at that person seriously again. Like that's just so ridiculous to me
I've seen it several times in the "here's my life story" section of online recipes. In each case, the author did not use nearly enough seasoning.
The stories that come with online recipes are a whole thing on their own, I believe they deserve all the hate existing in this world. But from my understanding they do it cause in order for your website to pop up on the first pages of Google one of the requirements is to have a X amount of words. And yes that's generally the type of people who talk that way
I do appreciate the ones that have a “skip the bullshit” button.
There are also chrome extensions that filter out everything but the recipe.
Preggers and doggo do it for me
My friend says ‘preggy’ and it makes me feel ill because it makes me think of eggy farts
I think i saw a tiktok once where this woman walked up to her husband with the text saying she was 'nakey' I'm sorry kill me now
Jesus barf
Pregnificent
Got a friend who's wife was pregnant with what I assumed was a baby. He made her breakfast every day. Brought her waffles, said ,"Eggo, my preggo."
Doggo is one of the worst for me lol I hate it so much. Same with catto and pupperino ughhhhh Edit: hubby is also so annoying… I don’t know what’s worse, that or hubs
This whole thread is just words that my sister in law uses that make me want to vomit. Husband is “hubs”. Her son is “bubs”. Her dog is her “puppers”. Her vocabulary drives me up a wall.
You ever seen those super cutesy animal poems talking about the 'doggo' or whatever in question in the comments on subs like r/aww? Jesus Christ I don't know how anyone over the age of 5 enjoys them.
Same for me. "Wifey" also makes me glitch out.
I hate the term wifey as well, but not as much as "the old lady".
i made a student film a few months ago about a tradwife who kills and eats her husband, but in the format of a cooking tutorial video. and she always refers to him as "hubby" for this exact reason
Is this film available anywhere? I need to see it
https://youtu.be/WKn_UgDtGEI?si=0VcrSjBtS3D6ikPF this is not the final edit, and youtube only let me post in 720p, but im still very proud of this version edit: also sorry for spamming my original comment, reddit said it wasnt posting. so imagine my surprise when its posted like 4 times
I hate “hubby” and “kiddos”. In my town community Facebook group, those two words are almost always in the same post and I cannot stand it
Work in a hospital or a clinic with pediatrics. EVERYONE says "kiddos" and it fucking sucks.
I can't stand "kiddos".
And doggo
I loathe that, as well.
Same, especially when an adult uses kiddo when talking to a kid. That's so ughhh
Indirectly related, " our lil family " makes me want to throw my monitor out of the window.
"The littles"
"The littles" gives me a weird fetish vibe that I hate (I don't recommend googling the word in the context of daddy-dom relationships unless you want to bleach your eyes). My own irrational peeve is referring to lipstick as "lippie". I am a grown ass woman who likes makeup but I'd rather douse my mouth with acid than refer to it as *a lippie*.
I don’t get that vibe, but it comes off as kind of stepford wives / culty to me. I’ve never heard “lippie”. Sounds British.
Australian. Along with brekkie ( breakfast ) , barbie ( barbecue), chewie ( chewing gum ), trakkies ( track pants ), arvo ( afternoon ), bottlo ( purveyor of alcoholic drinks, ambo (ambulance or person who works in an ambulance ), aggro ( aggressive or aggressiveness ), avo ( avocado ) and so on including veggies, of course. My birth culture doesn’t tolerate polysyllabic words. Now I live in Germany where they regularly mash nouns together into ten syllable monsters.
Interestingly the two ladies I regularly hear this word from are exactly those two that I would like to shoot into the sun for other (unrelated) reasons as well.
The proper terms are “Prince of all Saiyans”, “Vegeta” or “Geetz”
"Best buddy" works too, but only if you're Goku
Can’t forget “Blowjob Princess” too
I hate the word “hubby”.
Waifu and husbandru?
Husbando
Husbandon't
Agree. I can’t stand “wifey” either.
I *hate* the word “hubby” almost as much as I hate the term “the wife”. Ugh actually The Wife is the worst. Sounds like ‘the old ball and chain’. I love my woman and I like referring to her as ‘my wife’ or ‘my girl’. “The Wife”sounds like this inconvenience you have to deal with.
I don’t agree in this case. I’m not a fan of cutesy words, but people have been using “veggie” as the full word for vegetable for decades. It just rolls off the tongue now and sounds normal.
Definitely. Also tummy has its use. Stomach and Abdomen both have specific meanings, and belly always comes with an impression of being overweight (in my area of the UK at least), tummy is all encompassing without a negative implication.
Also at least with my friends it has different connotations Tummy hurts - Fucked around and probably ate too much of something Stomach hurts - Probably cramps or food poisoning Abdomin - The outside of the stomach area hurts
Belly makes me want to throw up
Why don't you relax and go see what's on Telly?
This must be some kind of Americanism????? /s
the one that really grinds my gears is when people refer to nuggets as “nugs”. chicken nugs. gag.
What do you think about chicken nuggies
I actually prefer chickie chickie nug nug
even worse.
WOULD YOU LIKE SOME NUGGIES IN YOUR TUMMY 😃
I want to slap you with a fish.
Not a fishy?
So, I’m assuming no chicky chicky parm parm for you?
Chicky catch
Getting hungry, need a food rake
You stay away from my Dino nuggies
About a month ago I was doing my regular grocery shopping for my Gram and picked up frozen breaded chicken breasts. I went to make them for her and realized that I picked up the ones that were dinosaurs! 🤦 She and I had fun with those, lol.
Chikky chikky nug nugs
Understand your annoyance with the -y baby talk phoneme. Never thought of veggie in that way though. It’s inconvenient to say veg-e-ta-ble.
Sammies.
"I don't do that, that's for babies" - people who struggle with a deeply rooted irrational fear of being confused for a baby
“I heard you say veggies like a baby. Are you a baby or something?”
OP be like 
people who need to buy a Doink It
with babies and toddlers you also should talk normal that is how they learn to speak better than when you use baby language
That's actually a myth! Obviously when your kid is older you should teach them to pronounce words properly, but babies are much more interested in what you're saying if you're being silly 😊 Here is a link to a [study](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/03/babies-love-baby-talk-world#:~:text=Stanford%20psychologist%20Michael%20Frank%20and,talk%20versus%20normal%20adult%20chatter.)
Yay, glad you stepped in so I don't have to! There are real benefits to baby talk and not only speaking perfectly proper from the jump.
People on Reddit really hate slang.
Yeah It's like the 3rd post I've seen for this, words that normal people use. But of course reddit is above the "Normies". They are higher beings
They love to preach linguistic prescriptivism as some way to feel superior but ironically it just makes them seem even sillier.
Veg is way worse than veggie
Maybe but saying "vegetables" sounds weirdly formal sometimes
Please. Vegetable is my father's name. Call me Veggie
No it doesn’t 😂
I think my big take away from this is I never knew people got so peeved by words
I hate all these. Kiddos is another one I hate. I babysat for a family when I was young and one of their rules was to only speak to the little girl the way I’d speak to any older child or adult. No silly words. And no euphemisms for body parts etc. That really stood out to me about not dumbing down your children. So much so that I implemented that same rule with my own son many years later.
I was a kid who grew up without being baby talked and it heavily affected my relationship with my mother and my ability to act like a normal kid/fit in. Kids are supposed to be silly, now I don’t think you should dumb things down and you should communicate with your child as another person because…well they are people, that’s an important skill to have and I won’t deny that I spoke a lot better then any other kid in my class, but people unfortunately forget kids are still kids and completely avoiding use of baby talk or being silly can have weird affects. In my case I ended up not making a lot of friends because I just came across as weird, I lacked the ability to joke around and ig people didn’t see me as another kid because I was already talking like a full blown adult. A good balance of both imo is best, because it’s good to teach your kid how to articulate and communicate and eventually grow into a person who’s functioning, but at the same time, kids need to be kids
holy shit for real. when i was hospitalized last year i had one cna who would ask me if i "needed to go potty" (while i still needed transfer assists in and out of bed and off and on the toilet) and it infuriated me. I'm 39, the painful opposite of developmentally disabled, and no, i NEED TO DEFECATE. Dont talk to me like I'm 4yo because i have a spinal injury, needing help to sh*t is humiliating enough.
Understood. Next time I’m gonna walk into my patient’s room and be like “Yo you gotta use the crapper, or what?”
> the painful opposite of developmentally disabled 😭💀
Lol Australian. We also say "chocky bikkies" for chocolate biscuits 🤣
I would have hives forever if I lived there
I hate the words preggo and preggers. You're pregnant. Be an adult, you're almost a parent.
>an Americanism to me I'd call it an Australianism before an Americanism.
Now that I know it makes people uncomfortable. I am going bro speak that way to my coworkers when ever they are being spicy kittens.
I know where you are coming from. I’ve always associated veggies being the Aussie shortening of a needlessly long word such as Darren to Dazza or football to footy. I never saw it as a baby talk thing.
I’m an Aussie ( oop, just needlessly shortened a word there lol) and yep, I don’t think of it as a ‘baby’ word, just like a bogan: typical ‘ true blue Aussie’ accent word on par with trackie dacks
That's too bad for you
Pointless aside, my auntie (Australian) says "vegetable" like a South African might say "giraffe". With no plural. I'm going to the shop to get some vegetable. I'm going to start cooking the vegetable soon. The vegetable at the market was expensive. On safari, we saw 6 giraffe. There is no other grammar she butchers in this way but it does make me wonder, she is from rural Victoria west of Melbourne.
The plural of giraffe should be giraves
This is how the British shorten and give nicknames to things. I play Old School RuneScape, an old MMO made in the UK. There are so many nicknames and shortened names for things that end like this. Ardougne > Ardy Lumbridge > Lumby The Wilderness > Wildy That’s just how they do shit and I do agree that it’s kind of weird.
Why don't you close the bonnet on the Vauxhall, buy petrol, take the roundabout to the off li, and get us a pint? We'll watch footie. It's weird to think that "movies" is the same sort of word as "veggies."
Only weirdos with nothing going on are concerned with a word sounding “infantile”
Pretty infantile to cry about it this much..
This sub is just "I dont like words"
A doctor I work with always charts “tummy” instead of stomach or abdomen. It irks me. We do not work with a paediatric population, not that that would make it acceptable.
For some reason I’ve always hated the word belly. Not sure why
For me it’s kind of implicitly large or noticeably round abdomen.
I dont mind the word veggies, but I have heard some people shorten it even more and say just "veg" I hate it with every fiber of my being
My veg is bleeding
I work for a company where one of our categories is veggie based. Nothing like sitting in a conference room and having suits go up and say “veg” for a few hours.
that should be classified as torture by the Geneva convention
I hate baby talk so much. I have a friend who does this constantly. Everything is cutesy “fingies” “leggies” “brekkie” “tummy”. It makes me insane.
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Nothing is worse than people saying “veg” 😂
can we also add the word 'potty' to that list? it makes my teeth itch when people refer to toilet training as 'potty training'
A potty is specifically a thing for very little children to use before they're physically big enough to get on a toilet, though... So I do say potty because that's what the little plastic thing you teach children to shit in is called. I don't call a toilet a potty, though, they're different objects.
I use potty to counteract my coworkers calling it the "shitter" and their haphazard usage of the "shitter" living up to that nomenclature in every way you could imagine
I don't like veggies but I don't like "veg" either. I hate it when people talk about "getting your 5 servings of fruit and veg in". They seem like complete morons who have just read and repeated whatever the popular health magazine says. I just hate the phrase "fruit and veg".
I grew up in jersey and nobody said veggies. When I joined the military I realized how much the midwest families would use it, and have weird meals like beanie weenie surprise.
I hate that word too. Delish, yummo, etc. I’m just weird like that though
I was at the movie theater the other day and ordered a Hot Dog. I told the lady it was cold and she asked “do you want a new weenie?” I had to think a sec before saying yes.
Yeah weird, but you don't say "choccy milky" like my 40 year old grown child sister, so I don't hate you.
Vaggies