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#187176 - 10/08/09 04:20 PM Most annoying word in the U.S.
Jackie Offline
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From the AP: ...Americans are totally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations.

The popular slacker term of indifference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.

"Whatever" easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7 percent), "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of the day" (2 percent).

(It was) Immortalized in song by Nirvana ("oh well, whatever, nevermind") in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in "Clueless" later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people.


I'd be interested to hear which words/expressions annoy folks in other countries.

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#187177 - 10/08/09 05:07 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: Jackie]
Buffalo Shrdlu Offline
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like, um...

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#187178 - 10/08/09 06:11 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: Jackie]
BranShea Offline
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How many countries do you have in mind?
Anyway, whistle here is your survey in yesterdays "Spits", one of our two free daily newspapers for commuters by train:

Link

This moment's worst word in the Netherlands ?

Toppie = superb; also used as helemaal toppie= totally suberb -------- Arghhhh! gruwel! We have no surveys like that, but this is only the top of the iceberg.




Edited by BranShea (10/08/09 06:13 PM)

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#187179 - 10/08/09 06:13 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: BranShea]
olly Offline
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Absolutely

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#187180 - 10/08/09 06:15 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: olly]
BranShea Offline
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I'm glad you agree with this smile

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#187181 - 10/08/09 06:16 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: BranShea]
olly Offline
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For sure.

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#187185 - 10/08/09 06:32 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: olly]
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Dude

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#187186 - 10/08/09 06:43 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: LukeJavan8]
olly Offline
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Totally

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#187189 - 10/08/09 08:01 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: olly]
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For all of y'all that are bothered by this word, used in this way (I would suspect you're not bothered by it in phrases such as 'whatever happens, we'll survive') do you remember when you first heard it and what your reaction was to it at the time?

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#187191 - 10/08/09 09:30 PM Re: Most annoying word in the U.S. [Re: Faldage]
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"Whatever" easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7 percent), "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of the day" (2 percent).

you know, I absolutely don't remember when it was; but anyway I do remember thinking to myself, "whatever, at the end of the day, it is was it is."
- joe btfkpst

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