After reading a post about the Most Irritating Phrases in the English Language on lemondrop.com, I couldn’t help but share them with you.
But first, here’s my top ten list…
- Reinvent the wheel
- Outside the box
- Towards
- [blank] associate (or any job titles that sound fancier than they really are)
- Google it
- Pwning some nubes
- Vertical/horizontal market
- Upstream/downstream
- Ending sentences with prepositions
- Significant other/life partner
Here’s the original list from Oxford University:
- At the end of the day
- Fairly unique
- I personally
- At this moment in time
- With all due respect
- Absolutely
- It’s a nightmare
- Shouldn’t of
- 24/7
- It’s not rocket science
Here’s some additional ones from Lemondrop with which I agree:
- going green
- tween
- douche
- blogosphere
- value-added
- grassroots
- low-hanging fruit
- monetize
- chillax
- no offense but …
- all of the sudden
- basically
- ironically
- actually
- honestly
- totally
- hopefully
- as to whether
- anyways/towards (anyway, toward)
- for all intensive purposes (for “for all intents and purposes”)
- suppose to (for “supposed to”)
- could of (for “could have”)