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…

1. Reinvent the wheel
2. Outside the box
3. Towards
4. [blank] associate (or any job titles that sound fancier than they really are)
5. Google it
6. Pwning some nubes
7. Vertical/horizontal market
8. Upstream/downstream
9. Ending sentences with prepositions
10. Significant other/life partner

Here’s the original list from Oxford University:

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

Here’s some additional ones from Lemondrop with which I agree:

1. going green
2. tween
3. douche
4. blogosphere
5. value-added
6. grassroots
7. low-hanging fruit
8. monetize
9. chillax
10. no offense but …
11. all of the sudden
12. basically
13. ironically
14. actually
15. honestly
16. totally
17. hopefully
18. as to whether
19. anyways/towards (anyway, toward)
20. for all intensive purposes (for “for all intents and purposes”)
21. suppose to (for “supposed to”)
22. could of (for “could have”)