Most Over Used Word?

Pross
Pross Posts: 43,463
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
What words annoy you by getting overused and used incorrectly? My favourites include:-

Literally (a girl I know said she literally wet herself laughing watching some film, I suggested that must have been embarrassing in a crowded cinema :lol: )

Absolutely - seems to be the answer to every question in interviews (usually with middle class birds) when all they really mean is yes!

Awesome - anything that's quite good seems to get described as awesome. I can't remember the last time I was actually in awe of how good something was :wink:

There are more but I'll leave some for the rest of you to have a rant about :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Loose instead of lose - Grrrrr.

    I'm very guilty of awesome.... However I say it due to my pseudonym.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Not one word but three.

    OH MY GOD.

    FFS used all the time by numpty tw@ts on reallity TV shows.
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Not one word but three.
    OH MY GOD.

    FFS used all the time by numpty tw@ts on reallity TV shows.

    Same for me, "Can I get............" Yes, you will get something if you keep saying that!!!! :evil:

    oh, and 'numpty tw@ts' :lol::wink:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • shane515
    shane515 Posts: 139
    :evil: Like :evil:

    I like went to the shop like and got a newspaper like arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh :evil:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    We have a trainer at work and each session we run a book on how many times he says the phrase 'It's not rocket science'.

    Turns an irritating habitual phrase into an amusing diversion...
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
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    Which anything???
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    dennisn wrote:
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    Which anything???

    Do you not mean Oreo profile?
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Not one word but three.
    OH MY GOD.

    FFS used all the time by numpty tw@ts on reallity TV shows.

    Same for me, "Can I get............" Yes, you will get something if you keep saying that!!!! :evil:

    oh, and 'numpty tw@ts' :lol::wink:

    dennisn - see that, underlined above? That's you bloody lot, that is!!!!!
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • Infamous
    Infamous Posts: 1,130
    "Bang for buck" on here, doesn't make grammatical sense and it's the wrong currency.
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    Random

    LOL

    Can I get (meaning Can I have) - this one really pi$$es me off!
  • spanielsson
    spanielsson Posts: 776
    shane515 wrote:
    :evil: Like :evil:

    I like went to the shop like and got a newspaper like arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh :evil:

    Spot on :)
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Westerberg wrote:
    Random

    LOL

    Can I get (meaning Can I have) - this one really pi$$es me off!

    Yeah, especially when it's repeated by people who can't be bothered to read! :wink:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Not one word but three.
    OH MY GOD.

    FFS used all the time by numpty tw@ts on reallity TV shows.

    Same for me, "Can I get............" Yes, you will get something if you keep saying that!!!! :evil:

    oh, and 'numpty tw@ts' :lol::wink:

    dennisn - see that, underlined above? That's you bloody lot, that is!!!!!

    I agree. Or not. What?? Huh??? Remember I'm a little slow. That went over my head or maybe never got near me. :? :? :?
  • mkirby
    mkirby Posts: 365
    dude annoys the hell out of me. and people who say pacifically instead of specifically.

    Oh and "swings and roundabouts" everyone and their mother uses it round here.
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    AMAZING

    That one is used a bloody lot
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    "Great".

    Particularly when used by football commentators. As in "that was a great shot". No it wasn't, it wasn't even on target.

    There's some Welsh English that drives me nuts too - 'where to', superfluous s's on verbs (e.g 'I loves you') etc.
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  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    bomb or bulletproof. :twisted:
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Think out of the box! If this means original thinking, every time someone says it they are not even thinking, they're turning the cliché pedals but their brain's not in gear.

    Damn, I just remembered the OP was talking about one word - as you were...
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  • FransJacques
    FransJacques Posts: 2,148
    Laterally stiff but vertically compliant. Hell, my bed is laterally stiff and vertically compliant. As is a pint of beer.

    Cyclingnews are in love with concentric. Any technical description invariably contains concentric something or another. Obfuscation.

    "Begs the queston". Most people use it as "raises the question".

    there, their, they're and know, now, no. These could just be sloppy typing.

    I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.
    When a cyclist has a disagreement with a car; it's not who's right, it's who's left.
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    FransJacques wrote:
    I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.

    Your not wrong its, bad punctuation which really;really annoys me.
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    nO names metioned '
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Definitive when they mean definite. BBC reporters seem the worst offenders. I have to be restrained from screaming at the screen. (I like that bit :? )
    The older I get the faster I was
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    Brought instead of Bought
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    People who say 'for free' annoy me.

    You got it free. Maybe you got it for nothing. You can give something freely. Never however, is 'for free' acceptable.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    "Impacted". David Brent style pseudo-military jargon used by middle managers who aren't quite sure of the difference between affect/effect.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    "Medium-term". Revealing phrase used by untrustworthy people who won't commit to anything.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    "Can you borrow me a fiver?" :shock:

    I had never heard anyone use it until I moved to Liverpool/NW.

    Hopefully...... overused by Premiership footballers at post-match interviews.
    Cannondale Six Carbon
  • Seanos
    Seanos Posts: 301
    FransJacques wrote:
    I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.
    I'm the same with spelling.
  • Allez Mark
    Allez Mark Posts: 364
    Westerberg wrote:
    Brought instead of Bought

    +1 for this.

    "Week in week out" or "day in day out". Just say every week or every day.
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    Seanos wrote:
    FransJacques wrote:
    I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.
    I'm the same with spelling.
    I saw a sign at my local community centre last week: Addmmittion £1 . How could anyone get it wrong in so many places! :D
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