PostHeaderIcon Oxford's Top Ten Irritating Phrases

Would you like to impress your boss or blog better? Unless you aim to do just that---irritate---then avoid the following phrases that researchers at the Oxford University found to be most irritating:
  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

Post US elections 2008, I like to see the following added to the top 100 list:
  • we are mavericks
  • white hard-working Americans
  • this great country of ours
  • you betcha
  • godunnit
  • my friends
  • there you go again, Joe
  • Joe the plumber
  • pit bulls
  • fair and balanced

You are all invited to add your own list.

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