For those of you with word fetishes such as myself, this might intrigue you. A Marist Poll has announced the most annoying word in the English language is….WHATEVER. I must agree. Not only is it annoying, it is overused and well, meaningless…whatever…
For many of us though there are a million equally annoying words and terms that rank up there with whatever.
My personal top annoying words:
- ‘like’ when used by kids as a filler (I cringe when I hear adults say it)
- ‘anyways’ – this is not even a real word. The correct word is ‘anyway’
- ‘r, gr8, u, b’ – for ‘are’, ‘great’, ‘you’ and ‘be’
Other runner-ups were:
- ‘I got’ – could the English language get any worse?
- ‘To tell you the truth’ – we’re they going to lie?
- ‘Actually’ – I have a friend who uses this word when she’s about to tell a lie
- ‘You know what I mean?’ – which is right up there (for me) with ‘I’m reading your mail…’
- ‘Are you serious?’
- ‘Irregardless’ & ‘irrespective’ – both improper, double negative words
- OMG – for Oh My God
- ‘Sick’…as an adjective for something someone likes
- ‘Awesome’ – that word went out with mullets…didn’t it?
- ‘24/7’
- ‘Seriously’
- ‘My bad’ – what’s wrong with a good old fashioned apology?
- ‘Chillax’
What is your most dislike slang word or term?
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