I’ll have to admit that this is my least favourite word of all the words in the English language.
This is primarily due to its similarity to the word ’stationary’, a word with which it seems to have no connection. I find the associations this creates completely baffling. I have nothing against words having two meanings, but for some reason this confuses me. I suspect this word annoys me most because you could easily imagine the words having a shared etymology; although in truth they are separate.
I am particularly annoyed at this word today having lost a large collection of the same in an exam. On reporting this to my senior tutor, I was told that I had not lost stationery, but an assorted bag of random crap, and that had I indeed lost what I had claimed, I would be looking for envelopes and sheets of paper. Anyway, I got it back, and my use of the word was valid, but uncommon, so I probably shouldn’t be too bitter.
Do any of you have a least favourite word?

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