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MissAttitude

Freelance Writer, Blogger, Web Producer and Adjunct Professor

I'm a professional woman in my 30s who's spent the last 13 years working in TV news. I love shoes, shopping and blogging. I also have an advice column. In the name of full disclosure I have to admit I don’t have a background in psychology, unless you count that one college course freshman year ...

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With all due respect.. you're wrong and I don't respect you!

Are there phrases that annoy the crap out of you?  I know I overuse seriously, but seriously I said it a lot before it became a thing on Grey's Anatomy.  

I also said not so much years before everyone else started (you don't have to take my word some of my friends will tell you it's true.)  So what phrases make you just want to slap someone?

Well, thanks to a friend I learned.  Oxford University recently compiled the top ten most irritating phrases:

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

The study also found "Other phrases to irritate people are "literally" and "ironically", when they are used out of context."   And yes, that does bother me more than I can say.  After working in a TV newsroom for all these years I'd like to add a few other phrases that make me want to scream and throw things:  

1 - Mother Nature -- seriously who is she?

2 - Lucky to be alive -- aren't we all?

3 - Blaze -- okay while just a word not really a phrase-- come on it's a fire people!

4 - ATM machine -- the M is for machine

5 - Breathing a sigh of relief -- used so much during hurricane season and sounds silly every time

6 - Brutal murder -- are there any other kind of murders?

7 - Arson fire -- it's redundant, an arson is a fire

9 - Completely destroyed -- it's either destroyed or it isn't!

10 - More questions than answers -- then you aren't doing your job as a journalist are you?

One of my former employees even put Post-It notes on his computer to remind him not to use many of these phrases.  So which phrases annoy you most boys and girls?  I want you to share.

Stylishly yours,
Miss Attitude

www.missattitude.us