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

the non-literal sense of literally has made it into most dictionaries now

Literally is the worst because people get to be anti-pedants about it now too
Thanks dictionaries!

"around" to mean "about," i.e. "conversations around..."

the timidity is similar to this - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/stop-saying-i-feel-like.html?_r=0 - with the addition of a layer of imprecision on top

i am totally guilty of "do"ing the chicken

take that how you will

...as you said to the chicken

(xxp) even worse is "I want to say". But I think I've mentioned that before on this thread.

I dunno. I think IWTS describes a thought-process in progress.

"shop" used by certain brands/websites:

"shop our collection" - I'll allow it - just
"shop our Daily Magic Moisturiser" - you mean BUY
"shop our edit" *shoots self*

ew

shop our edit!?

https://www.theoutnet.com/en-GB/Shop/List/Shop_our_boho_edit

i see this constantly

online critics

The overuse and often misuse of the word "hypocrisy." One I feel like I see a lot is using "hypocrisy" to just mean "not being consistent," like a person who is sometimes religiously observant but not all the time.

"Elites"

I just saw a hagen dazs add that said "56 years in the making" with a picture of a spoon of their ice cream. This really irritated me -- they haven't spent 56 years crafting their butter pecan or whatever ice cream flavor, it's been likely the same or with minor tweaks at best for decades. That's not what "in the making" means.

Heard Trump use the word "Bigly" the other day. Didn't annoy me so much as amuse me but it would annoy me if was used more often - and by less ridiculous figures.

winningest

'a non-zero chance', especially in political writing. if you're too wishy-washy to come up with a proper statistic, you should really just leave it at 'a small chance' or 'a chance'.

(I've even seen people use 'a small but non-zero chance', like they're proud of the fact that they're getting paid by the word)

scantily clad

"if there's one thing i really hate" people who say this never have one thing they always have loads.

For me it's "there are two kinds of people:" The kind of people who divide people into two kinds, and, um, the other kind.

"miss your face"

The word "rockstar" to mean something spectacular or impressive because nowadays it makes me think of some has-been musician playing at county fairs and casinos.

It always makes me think of the one "rocker" dude that's always in the mix on American Idol-style shows. Sort of a campy caricature of what it used to mean.

being a rockstar, that's where i'm a viking

eurocents

I've heard a ton of political pundits say "Calvinball" in the last few weeks.

wokest bae - I always imagine the writer in mid-stroke when typing this

^ minor character in next star wars film

probably already been mentioned but I'm a bit tired of the whole Charlie Brooker/Chris Morris school of calling hated public figures things like 'cockmangling spunktrumpet' etc.. Kind of funny when they did it on Brass Eye in the 90s but I'm surprised at how impressed people are by this sort of thing

"We do not agree that hindsight is required" - I'm gonna hear this phrase 1000s of times and the present tense "is" will always annoy.

"elevated pub fare" or "elevated pub grub", arrgh, I saw this again this morning, use other words please!

speaking of which, "gastropub"

"Racially charged"

why are there no racial charging stations in this airport

I dislike the term "policy wonk"

"grown-up voters"

Henceforth I propose "wonk" be changed to "wonker."

"What will the political wonkers have to say about this on the Sunday talk shows?"

"Trump will need to recruit a very experienced wonker to be his running mate."

"Bill Clinton had a reputation as an obsessive policy wonker."

Something is written in the dust. You read: 'know ycilop.'

Disconnect. The word is disconnection.

Any eatery that refers to itself as kitchen, e.g. a shitty local chain bar that serves food referring to itself as "kitchen and wet bar". Wet bar even worse than kitchen obv but thankfully haven't seen that much elsewhere.

Sunny's boss the other day wanted to know if she "had a sufficiency of work to do."

Annoys me so much, especially since using the word "sufficient" would have been... sufficient.

lol I say sufficiency

it is but one example of a kind of jocular scots grandiloquence I picked up from my granny

Any time wins uses the word ghostbusters i get ia

For some reason I hate that you can say 'resilience' or 'resiliency' interchangeably.

I vote for resilience and relevance and compliance ("compliancy" ugh).

But for some reason I think I think of "competence" and "competency" as different things.

She displays competence. (mass noun)

Pickling and tickling are among her competencies. (count noun)

Though I guess you could do away with this use of "competencies" by concluding that it means the same thing as "skills."

ymp otm

stop saying t-minus two days when something is happening in two days, please