The Most Irritating Phrases in the English Language

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The Most Irritating Phrases in the English Language


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It's 2008, and we're pretty sure we recently had a conversation that didn't involve a single catchphrase from "Clueless." Progress, right? Eh, kinda. Oxford University -- home to the wordsmiths responsible for adding "bootylicious" to the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language -- recently released a list of the top 10 most irritating phrases in current use, and it doesn't give us much hope for humanity.

Researchers combed through a variety of British books, blogs, magazines and broadcast transcripts to compile a database of words and phrases in current overuse/misuse, and then chose the worst offenders. Among their top picks were bad grammar ("shouldn't of," #8), redundant verbal tics ("I personally," #3) and regular old overused terms ("24/7," #9).

The rest of the Oxford list: "It's not rocket science" (#10), "It's a nightmare" (#7), "Absolutely" (#6), "With all due respect" (#5), "At this moment in time" (#4), and "Fairly unique" (#2). Their top pick? "At the end of the day," gratingly popular (and totally meaningless) with politicians, athletes, pundits, and management types. It's basically a glimpse at what it will sound like in hell.

Because we're also easily irritated here in America, we've compiled our own list of annoying phrases. Click here to read them, and be sure to leave your own pet peeves in the comments.




Cliches from 2006: best.[something].ever, I just threw up in my mouth, going green, [blank] is the new [blank], tween, douche, rad, drama, blogosphere, ginormous, bajillion, totes, bro, bra, bromance.

Office Jargon: team-building, value-added, grassroots, reach out, multitasking, no-brainer, low-hanging fruit, monetize, ping.

Faux Ghetto Slang: killin it, for real/for reals/on the real/keepin' it real, hit me up, oh snap!, chillaxing.

Unnecessary Conjunctions and Transitions: no offense but ..., all of the sudden, basically, ironically, actually, honestly, totally, hopefully, as to whether, I swear to God, you know.

Misused/Mispronounced Phrases: irregardless (for "regardless"), aggravate (for "irritate"), anyways/towards (anyway, toward), for all intensive purposes (for "for all intents and purposes"), suppose to (for "supposed to"), could of (for "could have"), analyzing/analyzation (for "analysis"), literally (when meant figuratively).

Internet acronyms/LOLCat slang (Even When Used Ironically): OMG, i can haz, LOLz, teh Internets, Oh noes!, Obvs, PWN.

Tell us! What words and phrases drive you crazy?

http://www.lemondrop.com/2008/11/12/the-most-irritating-phrases-in-the-english-language/
 
lol i'm guilty of using 'shoooot'...too much.

and saying 'no no no no' instead of jst no.

And ' I see'.

wat annoys me is wen people keep saying 'aha aha aha' wen they're on the fone...it never stops. lol
 
for me it isn't so much what they say, it is how they say it, especially here in NY.. just want to slap them into their senses...

(groups of teenagers) never ceased the popularity of the word 'like' --before, in the middle, and after every nonsensical statement
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it has been passed down for generations 'like really' like ohmigawd' 'like I told her like and like wouldn't like listen'-- they do it while producing the words from their pits, they can't just roll the annoying phrases off their tongues like most normal people... and they do it so everyone in the streets can hear what went on, perhaps they might be 'discovered' for something in the process...

I remember once I was in the elevator, and this girl was complaining to her friend on the phone of how others and particularly this guy 'moose' were accusing her as having outed him as 'gay' lol, then she proceeds by 'I never said that' she insisted it wasn't her, well later on I had to go take something to the dry cleaners and I saw her with 'moose' and the rest, and I could rightly implicate her in the outing of moose, just not sure why it didn't occur to her that she might have had something to do with it ;D

teenagers.. ah without them, the world would be a semi lovely place for children and adults...
 
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i use this all the time but it is really annoying

INNIT!!!!!!!!

And another thing which really annoys me is when people say LIKE at the end of every sentence
 
Some of the most annoying phrases i've heard would be:

"fo riz" "we are truth" "we follow the true religion" "ka ka (say it like cud)" "Obama Obama Obama" "nigga"

Many more, but them are the ones one.
 
From the list of clichés, I've only use "blogosphere" often. What else do you call it? Blogocone?

Words and phrases that drive me crazy: "Wag one", "man", "dude" and "Whassup"

Thankfully, I don't go to a school filled with suckers, nor do I live in an area like that.
 
Yanoorah said:
lol i'm guilty of using 'shoooot'...too much.

and saying 'no no no no' instead of jst no.

And ' I see'.

wat annoys me is wen people keep saying 'aha aha aha' wen they're on the fone...it never stops. lol
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I see....ahaahahah.

Rabi'ya said:
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i use this all the time but it is really annoying

INNIT!!!!!!!!

And another thing which really annoys me is when people say LIKE at the end of every sentence
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Innit.

Clover said:
Some of the most annoying phrases i've heard would be:

"fo riz" "we are truth" "we follow the true religion" "ka ka (say it like cud)" "Obama Obama Obama" "nigga"

Many more, but them are the ones one.
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We DO follow the true religion :D

Whatsthepoint said:
Yo wassup nigga whatchu kno about this sucka?
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aint kno but wht I do kno is that yo pst may get dltd.


The Ruler said:
From the list of clichés, I've only use "blogosphere" often. What else do you call it? Blogocone?

Words and phrases that drive me crazy: "Wag one", "man", "dude" and "Whassup"

Thankfully, I don't go to a school filled with suckers, nor do I live in an area like that.
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yo whassup dude ...dude don't say that , Dude those words are the best dude.


Srry I just had to do this. :X


surprisingly I don't really have a particular word(s) that I find annoying.
I like to use those annoying words :D
 
It's also great when people go: 'guess what' and then it is obvious the person can't guess what so they reply with 'what'. I still do it tho:
Guess what
what?
You stink. haha
 
:-[ i use DUDE alot in real life.. hardly ever online though..

but the most weird phrase i heard was sumthing like "yow brap brap"
 
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What is weird is when people actually say OMG in real life...just the letters. Like seriously, you can't say oh my God instead? :s Aside from that, none of 'em really annoy me.

Oh, and I'm guilty of saying like and totally a lot. I used to say dude more, but it got old I guess. :X
 
Greetings,

Gossamer Skye said:
(groups of teenagers) never ceased the popularity of the word 'like' --before, in the middle, and after every nonsensical statement it has been passed down for generations 'like really' like ohmigawd' 'like I told her like and like wouldn't like listen'
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I agree completely. :)

'Like' would definitely top my list.

Peace
 
Or the phrase "Yo you know this and that did this and that...."
 
czgibson said:
Greetings,



I agree completely. :)

'Like' would definitely top my list.

Peace
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Greetings,

thanks for the rep.. will return it once I have some powers :D

I really didn't think 'Like' was as popular in England as it is in the U.S?

I rather enjoy the British accent, I wish I had a British accent at times.. everything just sounds more sophisticated I imagine even 'like omigawd' :haha:

peace
 

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