Posted on 11/07/2008 8:35:19 AM PST by edzo4
Heading the list was the expression 'at the end of the day', which was followed in second place by the phrase 'fairly unique'.
The tautological statement "I personally" made third place – an expression that BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphreys has described as "the linguistic equivalent of having chips with rice."
Also making the top 10 is the grammatically incorrect "shouldn't of", instead of "shouldn't have".
The phrases appear in a book called Damp Squid, named after the mistake of confusing a squid with a squib, a type of firework.
The researchers who compiled the list monitor the use of phrases in a database called the Oxford University Corpus, which comprises books, papers, magazines, broadcast, the internet and other sources.
The top ten most irritating phrases:
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Change and Hope
The failed policies of the Bush administration
ummm ahh umm ummm you see ummm
Is this what our major Universitys do all day? Boy....really worth spending your money going there.
How about “Institution of Higher Learning”?
How did “hugh and series” not make the list?
“If you will”
2. At the end of the day.
3. Actually.
4. On the ground.
5. Going forward.
paradigm shift...hope....change....
That's a whole nuther problem.
At this juncture?
“The fact of the matter is”
With all due respect, At the end of the day, lists like this don’t help. I personally have to say it’s a nightmare. Absolutely. At this moment in time, we have more important things to focus on, so this list Shouldn’t of been published at all. The election of Obama is the problem we need to focus on. I mean, really, I’m on that 24/7. It’s not rocket science.
“My Friends”
How about:
So...
As in starting every answer when asked a question with the word So
more or less
looking for closure
bi-partisan
How about that idiot FILLER “Going forward?”
Has someone invented a time machine and I missed the news?
Pray tell, HOW THE HELL DOES TIME STOP or DOES ONE GO BACK??
I’m pretty sure time will continue to move FORWARD — ahh — GOING FORWARD.
Of course, that WAS before the election. I’m betting that Obamessiah will take us back to another time, say the 1930s and Stalin’s USSR.
Where you at?
“Let me tell you something” -—probably #1 used in pro wrestling
Ah, the “closure” thing totally, Dude.
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