Wednesday, August 9

Familial

For some strange reason, I dislike this word. Familial. I trip over it in just about every romance book I read these days. It's not a bad word, it has a simple straight forward definition--common to families: relating to or involving a family, yet I don't like it. I don't like they way it sounds. Say it out loud, it's like saying aluminum or cinnamon, it doesn't flow nicely. I've decided to skip over it whenever I come across it.

With the exception of euphemisms for body parts, what words do you find distracting? Heck, list the euphemisms if you want.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know but I am getting to hate the word cock. Maybe its just the book I am reading: Good Girl Gone Bad by Karen Tabke. Inexorable is my new least favorite word though after having read it in about 5 romantica books in a row.

Dev said...

I just posted something about his on my blog ~ my biggest pet peeve is the hero calling the heroine "Little One" ~ or the hero explaining to the heroine what La Petite Morte is. (AKA...every darn Diana Palmer book out there. I finally had to quit reading them).

Tara Marie said...

Jane, inexorable, good one--I actually think that was in the one I'm reading right now--LOL.

Devonna, Diana Palmer has been using "Little One" for the last 20 years, she has to the heros are all 10, 15, 20 years older then the heroine.

Dev said...

Tara ~

Exactly, that's why I had to stop reading them. I felt like I was re-reading the same book over, and over, and over.....Not to mention I'm closer to the hero's age than the heroine's and it was starting to tick me off.....

~ames~ said...

I'm reading Laurell K. Hamilton-so the words I hate right now are "spill" and "ardeur." Most hated euphemism at the moment is velvet muscle. ewww.

Tara Marie said...

ames, "velvet" anything is just wrong.