Most Over Used Word?

Tail end Charlie

Clearly it's clearly. Always used by politicians when things are as clear as mud.

Spender45

The one that has bugged me all winter is people saying "wrap up warm" when they mean "wrap up warmly". :x

Also

Why is everything "in terms of" :x

Also

I hate eerything being "like" :x

Having said all that I like the A & M pilot sketches

pneumatic

unbelievable

passout

it's actually actuallly.

disgruntledgoat

Our work has the classic "we are where we are"

Which means "lets ignore all the terrible decisions made to get us to this point, management have to keep the illusion of competency. Right how are YOU going to fix our mess?"

Chip \'oyler

JLM74 wrote:

dmclite wrote:

Chip \'oyler wrote:

AT THE END OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh :evil:

I am so with you on this.

Like, totally.

Isn't it

Verbal

I used to work with a wideboy type character who would say "innit" at the end of every sentence, and I mean EVERY sentence. I used to try and pull him up on it because it bugged the hell out of me but at the same time made me laugh because he had no idea that what was coming out of his mouth made no sense at all. Example:

Him - "I'm going to the canteen, innit".
Me - "What?"
Him - "I said I'm going to the canteen, innit"
Me - "Isn't it what?"
Him - "What?"
Me - "You asked me a question."
Him - "No I didn't."
Me - "Yes you did, you said "isn't it" at the end of your sentence."
Him - "No I didn't"
Me - "Yes you did, but you pronounced it as "innit" ".
Him - "Did I?"
Me - "Yes."
Him - "So you coming to the canteen then?"
Me - "Not with you, no."
Him - "Cool. Laters innit."
Me - "Isn't it what?"

You get the picture, we used to have so much fun until he got made redundant...

cee

i don' tlike aggravate, when people really mean irritate...

as in...that so and so really aggravated me.....

irritated....

if they aggravated you...there was something wrong in the first place, which the so and so made worse..

timb64

"Well good"( A bit dated now but still grrrrr!)
"Somethink"
MPs(mostly) prefacing a statement with "Look"(Yes "Look at my hand slapping your face very hard!")

MattC59

Dude, like OMG, chillax will you all, it's like, at the end of the day, only a word.... innit..... LOLZ

desweller

I have a specialist one for you.

At work we have a system for approving changes to engineering drawings, processes etc., whereby concessions are made by the quality department to allow us to run processes away from the documentation.

Except, being an engineering company, with a large number of people who (I am convinced) last read a book back in primary school, we have invented the verb 'to concess'.

After 8 years of hearing this bloody non-word I have developed an involuntary facial tic. Gaaaaaah.

MattC59

DesWeller wrote:

I have a specialist one for you.

At work we have a system for approving changes to engineering drawings, processes etc., whereby concessions are made by the quality department to allow us to run processes away from the documentation.

Except, being an engineering company, with a large number of people who (I am convinced) last read a book back in primary school, we have invented the verb 'to concess'.

After 8 years of hearing this bloody non-word I have developed an involuntary facial tic. Gaaaaaah.

I hate it when people make words up, or talk b*llsh*t. I tend to stop listening and once they've finished ask then to repeat, but in English. Generally, I find that upsets them

Pross

brin wrote:

that idiot philip schofield, when he announces the successful pair to get though on the ridiculous dancing on ice............." the next pair safely through the next round is" when has a pair ever been regarded an is? when i went to school anything plural was regarded as are.

As Deptfordmarmoset pointed out, Schofield is correct. It is one pair and therefore singular so he correctly says either "the next pair is".

Pokerface

Pressurized instead of pressured (to do something).

And my favourite over used word (especially by the media): "bully".

FransJacques

Ands wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.

You do know there's an internet law that demonstrates that whenever you knock someone's language, something bad is going to happen to the sentence containing the criticism, don't you?

To be fair ( ), he didn't mention spelling.

Well, to be honest, I am literally the world's worst speller. We are where we are with spelling because absolutely every gadget we have checks our spelling so I don't pay any attention to it - my mobile, BB, Outlook, Word, Excel, hell, even Access, all have spell check.This forum, sadly, doesn't so any error is purely up to myself.

NEW PET PEEVE. Ending a sentence with "one" is, apparently, not proper grammer. I saw a FT article about budget deficits and to paraphrase it read as follows: "The US had a per capita budget deficit of USD 45,000. Britain has a bigger one." Using one exactly like that.

I was told to make reference to the direct object in name and not use the pronoun one. There are many examples of this. Does it bug anyone? I don't care too much but i remember an English prof telling me this is incorrect - or at least bad style.

deptfordmarmoset

FransJacques wrote:

Ands wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.

You do know there's an internet law that demonstrates that whenever you knock someone's language, something bad is going to happen to the sentence containing the criticism, don't you?

To be fair ( ), he didn't mention spelling.

Well, to be honest, I am literally the world's worst speller. We are where we are with spelling because absolutely every gadget we have checks our spelling so I don't pay any attention to it - my mobile, BB, Outlook, Word, Excel, hell, even Access, all have spell check.This forum, sadly, doesn't so any error is purely up to myself.

NEW PET PEEVE. Ending a sentence with "one" is, apparently, not proper grammer. I saw a FT article about budget deficits and to paraphrase it read as follows: "The US had a per capita budget deficit of USD 45,000. Britain has a bigger one." Using one exactly like that.

I was told to make reference to the direct object in name and not use the pronoun one. There are many examples of this. Does it bug anyone? I don't care too much but i remember an English prof telling me this is incorrect - or at least bad style.

Frans, I run dictionary add ons (British English dictionary plus French plus German) in my browser (Firefox) and they get me out of trouble most of the time. They'll watch over all your postings, here and just about anywhere else.

balthazar

Safari on Mac spellchecks, but otherwise I'd write in Word (or whatever) and paste in, rather than write in the browser comment box. I spellcheck and proofread everything I write though, even texts and quick emails. I still make plenty of mistakes, but I think the trying matters: it's a mark of respect to your reader, whoever they are.

rick_chasey

FransJacques wrote:

Ands wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.

You do know there's an internet law that demonstrates that whenever you knock someone's language, something bad is going to happen to the sentence containing the criticism, don't you?

To be fair ( ), he didn't mention spelling.

Well, to be honest, I am literally the world's worst speller. We are where we are with spelling because absolutely every gadget we have checks our spelling so I don't pay any attention to it - my mobile, BB, Outlook, Word, Excel, hell, even Access, all have spell check.This forum, sadly, doesn't so any error is purely up to myself.

NEW PET PEEVE. Ending a sentence with "one" is, apparently, not proper grammer. I saw a FT article about budget deficits and to paraphrase it read as follows: "The US had a per capita budget deficit of USD 45,000. Britain has a bigger one." Using one exactly like that.

I was told to make reference to the direct object in name and not use the pronoun one. There are many examples of this. Does it bug anyone? I don't care too much but i remember an English prof telling me this is incorrect - or at least bad style.

My pet peve: people using 'literally' as a form of hyperbole.

desweller

Rick Chasey wrote:

FransJacques wrote:

Ands wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I'm not a snob about much but bad language and grammer kill me.

You do know there's an internet law that demonstrates that whenever you knock someone's language, something bad is going to happen to the sentence containing the criticism, don't you?

To be fair ( ), he didn't mention spelling.

Well, to be honest, I am literally the world's worst speller. We are where we are with spelling because absolutely every gadget we have checks our spelling so I don't pay any attention to it - my mobile, BB, Outlook, Word, Excel, hell, even Access, all have spell check.This forum, sadly, doesn't so any error is purely up to myself.

NEW PET PEEVE. Ending a sentence with "one" is, apparently, not proper grammer. I saw a FT article about budget deficits and to paraphrase it read as follows: "The US had a per capita budget deficit of USD 45,000. Britain has a bigger one." Using one exactly like that.

I was told to make reference to the direct object in name and not use the pronoun one. There are many examples of this. Does it bug anyone? I don't care too much but i remember an English prof telling me this is incorrect - or at least bad style.

My pet peve: people using 'literally' as a form of hyperbole.

I literally laughed my head off when I read this.

It doesn't half sting when you do that.

Tootler

"In real terms"
This phrase used with alarming regularity by politicians when they are trying to describe how things have improved/deteriorated since the last government I find quite irritating.

Can anybody explain to me in real terms (not made up ones please) what this exactly means?

Sirius631

Another bit of corporate speak. The company I worked for called the concept phase of design 'ideation'!

'Really' is really, really,really overused.

Stewie Griffin

Football commentators saying early doors. I could kill Ron Atkinson.

Aggieboy

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Football commentators saying early doors. I could kill Ron Atkinson.

Ooooooooh, I love 'Early Doors'


Sorry, wrong thread

Anonymous

Referring to sports people as Heroes

Pross

My understanding of 'real terms' is that it makes allowance for inflation and the like. It does get misused though as you say. Politicians use it when they have a set of results that prove things are getting worse but they need to suggest they have actually improved

Bunneh

Not words but a collection of popular sayings/phrases:

'Know what I mean?'
'At the end of the day...'
'innit?'
'how much is dis?' (it's got the bloody price on, can't you read?)

'Oh yes!' as used by Doctor Who a lot, and which has entered regular usage in my vocabulary

Also people using terms like 'rape', 'racist', 'gay' etc massively out of context all the time. I find it absolutely horrible that some people use terms such as 'die in a fire' (DIAF) over small arguments on a bloody forum.

I no longer worry about bad spelling, grammatical errors and the such, not everyone has a grasp of some of the odd rules we have in this amazing language. I'm sure if I wrote in my very average German I'd make more than my fair share of errors. My annoyance is with leet speak and text speak; it's eroding the very essence of the English language.

Anyway, afk, brb nd 2 go 2 teh shops, kk

Beardface

dmclite wrote:

Referring to sports people as Heroes

+1.

*Creeps over from the MTB forums* I hope you don't mind me posting in here!! :oops:

A few that get to me:

"Give me 2 seconds". When people say that, it will never take 2 seconds. :evil:

Complacent - I dont think I've ever heard this outside of football!
Bare/bear with me - NO!
Wind my neck in - A colleague says this every day, without fail, at least 5 times. Grr.
Call me old fashioned - Again, same colleague. She gets annoyed when I do though. :?

Thats my 2 cents! (Which, ironically, annoys me too)!

desweller

Stav83 wrote:

dmclite wrote:

Referring to sports people as Heroes

+1.

*Creeps over from the MTB forums* I hope you don't mind me posting in here!! :oops:

A few that get to me:

"Give me 2 seconds". When people say that, it will never take 2 seconds. :evil:

Complacent - I dont think I've ever heard this outside of football!
Bare/bear with me - NO!
Wind my neck in - A colleague says this every day, without fail, at least 5 times. Grr.
Call me old fashioned - Again, same colleague. She gets annoyed when I do though. :?

Thats my 2 cents! (Which, ironically, annoys me too)!

A work colleague of mine, when relating a tale of some kind, frequently uses, 'Anyway, to cut a long story short', immediately before launching into an extended and unnecessary description of some trivial detail. He ought to say, 'Anyway, to waste yet more of your finite existence on this earth...'.

rake

Anonymous

I'm guilty of the Give me 2 seconds and bear with me and I cringe as I say them. I must try harder!