My New Least Favorite Word…

I’m sure we all have a least favorite word or two, and it changes for all of us each time we hear a word that’s over-used.

For a while the word ‘whatever’ was painfully over-used and occasionally I still hear myself saying it. To be honest, it is a convenient word.

“What do you want for dinner?” Whatever!

“What movie do you want to watch?” Whatever!

Almost everyone under thirty (and I’m being generous with that number) inserts the word like into every single sentence. Sometimes as many as ten times in a sentence if they forget to take a breath.

“I’d like to like go to the mall.”

“Where are you like going and can I like go along?”

How in the world did that ever start and is there anything we can do about it? If you’re one of those who use that word all too frequently, I am sure you’re unaware of it because it has simply become part of your vocabulary.

By now I’m sure the suspense is killing you about my new least favorite word.

Drumroll please. The new least favorite word of the day appears to be cute.

Cute can describe many things. Things like a puppy. Or a kitten. Or a baby. Or a dress. Even guys and gals are cute.

What cute doesn’t apply to is dishes, pots, pans, bakeware, new siding on a house, a car, and the list is endless.

All of a sudden that word is popping up all over the place to describe things that simply aren’t, or cannot be, cute!

My niece recently got married so of course there was a wedding shower. Since my favorite room in the house is the kitchen, and I do lots of baking and cooking, my gift to her was a variety of bakeware, pizza pans, pie plates, cookie sheets, etc.

Each gift, including mine, she opened and gushed, “Isn’t that cute?”

From where I’m sitting, there’s nothing cute about a bread pan or a pie plate or a cookie sheet.

Last week I sent my daughter-in-law a Christmas cookie cookbook. She has small children and I’m sure she will want to bake Christmas cookies at some point with them.

I got a text from her thanking me for the cookbook…saying it was cute. This particular cookbook doesn’t have a single cute cookie in it…you know like cut-out cookies that are decorated really cute?

My sixteen year-old granddaughter is covering all bases. She’s using cute and like in almost all of her sentences.

Oh how lucky am I to have a conversation with her…