Researchers at Oxford University just released their top ten most irritating phrases. The researchers who compiled the list monitor the use of phrases in a database called the Oxford University Corpus, which comprises books, papers, magazines, broadcast, the Internet, and other sources.
The top ten most irritating phrases:
1 – At [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed my kids saying this phrase, “a whole nother.” Then, my wife started saying it. Now…I’m watching TV (which I rarely do) and on comes a Circuit City advertisement. The ad is showing a woman sitting in a restaurant booth discussing the price of a digital camera…with a “live” [...]
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