My least favorite British English word is

“ennethen” (anything)

Wondering what is your least favorite USAmerican English word?

@todd

Diet

@todd a toss up between “whole nother” and “impactful” (though maybe the Brits also use these? shudder)

@ablerism @todd not meeting that many Americans in person, it's hard for me to separate American English from management BS English - so things like 'impactful', 'going forward', 'right sizing' are all terribly cringe expressions, but I'm not sure they're really American expressions normal people use every day.

@todd These days, “compute” used as a noun. As in “the company’s unsustainable spend on compute.” (I snuck in “spend” as a noun, which I also see.)

@JohnBrady Business needs to turn some verbs into nouns to make up for platforming so many nouns as verbs.

@ffmike There’s an old Calvin & Hobbes strip where someone exclaims “Verbing weirds language!”