Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.

Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

Or a colon.

COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"

"hating on"

"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.

Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.

A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

'Whilst'

"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"

"No can do"

'If I can just ask you to power off your machine'.

What's wrong with switch off?

The word "proverbial" when overused or when not referencing a proverb but an idiom or cliche. (Correct: "Let's not count our proverbial chickens just yet." Incorrect: "I'm having a proverbial bad hair day.")

Redundancy in general.

Word inflation (i.e. "efficacious" for "effective" or "efficient").

Add that to my list, please.

It’s a way of saying “showered with affection” which is to me a wonderful (and rare) thing.

I think of "love on" as a Southernism, because I don't think I ever heard it until I moved to Tennessee. But I don't know if that's true or just my experience.

"love on" in place of "to love," or "to give affection." As in "You gotta love on your babies" or "

This seems to have taken hold in anodyne Christian mom-land sometime after I departed that scene and has now escaped captivity and is everywhere. It conjures images of rubbing up against something like a cat. .

Gross!! It was not like that w Linda. She’s a mature Black woman in her 50s and she was proud of graduating. I won’t let some xtian mommies or gross imagery destroy my memory of how proud I was of her on that day 🏆

Sorry, LL! I believe you. I can hold two contradictory things in my mind: The way I feel about that expression, and respecting Linda and everything that you mean to each other.

We keep in touch! I just love the idea of showering someone with care and can’t find it gross.

"that tracks"

Well does it?

I didn’t like “cook” in its new verb form until I started using it myself. Now I’m cooking with it most days.

awaiting the linguistics paper on the rise and fall of 'serving _____'

How about an undergraduate thesis titled "Serving C*nt: an Intersectional Historical Look at the Reclamation of a Taboo Word"? (Though I guess that's less about the "serving" part.)

i love u jaymc

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“Cunt-curious” give me a break. Of COURSE this was from Claremont.

"____ is worse than you think"

This is every headline and video title now.