Stephen shows Tommy his "things he hates" list

If you had to delete one word from the English language, what would it be?

Ah, I like that. I do write things. Can I just look?

Yeah, would it be moist? Everyone goes for moist.

Yeah, I quite like moist. Yeah, exactly. Susie Dent doesn't like moist on Countdown. She's always...

Are you googling words?

I keep a sort of notebook in which I put things. I can search for it. Things I hate. I know that's terrible, isn't it?

Is that a note on your phone?

Well, no, it's in a notebook and it's under a hashtag of hate. Let's find it. Fatuous, lazy use of the word elite. True crime, that's just a genre I hate. TV ads that come in form of rhyming poetry. Oh, using the word crafted instead of made.

Yeah, crafted.

Very corporate.

Crafted.

Anything to do with dream and dreamers, unless it means the images that happened in your sleep when you're, you know, unconscious, but all this idea of your dreams can come true. No, they can't.

Oh, sorry for your loss. No, they can't. Oh

Sorry for your loss. Oh past I think past. Sorry for your loss is in hate. Yeah, why is that?

It's a form it you're not thinking you're just using. Yeah, okay reaching it off the shelf and it's not personal Yeah, and past I'm afraid I just makes me vomit die. Do you mean? Pass You mean... Pass? Pass? What do you mean pass? You pass an exam, a driving test, you pass an interesting shop.

Passed.

Passed away. No, died. The personal pronoun applied to truth. She's unafraid to speak her truth. The truth. It's either the truth or it isn't.

Pronouncing H with an H in front of it. H. Oh, iconic, actually, H in front of it. H. Um, oh, iconic, actually, that's a word I'd take.

Iconic? Yeah.

I hate that one as well.

Oh, it's horrible. Oh, it's horrible. It's used all the time.