Today's Telegraph had an interesting article about the top 10 most irritating phrases used in English, as compiled by Oxford. It's an interesting question- why are the researchers at Oxford not using their time better, maybe looking for a solution to create world peace. But that's a question for another day.
My list of annoying phrases:
- At the end of the day, we need to deliver...
- We own this project
- It's a nightmare; it's scary
- 24/7
- What is the ETA?
- It's not rocket science
- youallrightthere? (said in a Brit accent)
- cheers
- heyhowzitgoin?
- does that make sense?
- to be honest
- bad spellings- 'loose' v 'lose'
- look at it this way
- let's take a step back and think about this
- leave that one with me
- we need to push back if we don't have the resources
- carbon footprint; going green
- let's take that one offline
- give me a heads-up when the report is ready to go
- LOL and other text speak without vowels (ok, that one's personal- just takes too much effort to figure out the text msg)
- re-inventing the wheel
- good to go