Posted on 12/28/2012 8:25:16 PM PST by JoeProBono
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., - "Whatever" remains the most annoying word or phrase in the English language, a poll indicates.
"Like" and "you know" trailed in the show and place positions, the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., reported Thursday.
Almost one-third, 32 percent, of the adults surveyed selected "whatever." Another 21 percent picked "like" and 17 percent "you know."
"Just sayin" was the only other phrase to break into double digits at 10 percent. Another 9 percent picked "Twitterverse" and 5 percent "gotcha."
"Whatever" has now been in the top spot for four years running. But it has lost ground from last year when 38 percent found it most annoying.
Older respondents, non-college graduates and people with incomes under $50,000 were more likely to be annoyed by "whatever." Respondents under 45, college graduates and those with larger incomes tended to go for "like."
Marist surveyed 1,246 adults by telephone Dec. 4-6. The margin of error is 2.8 percentage points.
“Walk off home run” and “He’ll play on Sundays.”
“controversial”
Still haven’t noticed any turkey.
I dislike “no problem” and “in my heart of hearts”
What the heck is heart of hearts?
It’s just below the yams.
When I was working the reference desk of a public library, a teenager once prefaced a reference question with, "hey, dude who works here." I had always thought a dude was someone who worked on a ranch, but since the library is on what was once the property of the nineteenth-century land speculator and rancher Henry Dalton, they may have been technically correct in addressing me as "dude."
I cannot stand the “you guys” phrase. We end up not going back to a restaurant after being told “you guys” about 10-15 times over the course of one meal.
“Talk to,” as in — Joe can talk to that issue. Sally can talk to the presentation.
“Enough is enough” always gets to me.
Don't know, but I can't hear it without thinking about some sleazy politician using it to lie to the public.
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Thank you. Hear that one a lot on sports networks. Unbelievably annoying.
Comprehensive!
Compromise. and Extreme
“Middle class”.
This term has become meaningless and tiresome. What kind of American really likes to be economically sorted and labeled (mostly by snotty elitists)?
First cousin to, "orientated" and other bastardized forms of the word, "orient", such as, "orientate".
"Commentator" still bothers me, though it's been around so long, it may be acceptable to some but what's wrong with, "commenter"?
Too many taters in the world already.
There are numerous “..lys” that are annoying. It started with basically and spread - everyone seems to have their own now. I have one friend who uses essentially constantly. My boss says typically about twice in every sentence; if you took it away from him I don’t think he could talk. But the other day he slipped in historically. I agree, however, that actually beats them all. Call someone on the phone - “He’s actually at lunch; he’s actually in a meeting.” Ewww...
My son and his friends at 21 always say, “Back in my day.”
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