‘Whatever’ Voted Most Annoying Word, but I Nominate the Overused ‘Awesome’
A Marist poll (don't they have better things to do?) has revealed that Americans find whatever to be the most annoying word used in everyday English.
Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by like with 28 percent and the phrase you know what I mean at 15 percent.
I guess whatever can be viewed as dismissive if not downright disdainful depending on the manner in which it's spoken.
However, I nominate awesome, which is overused, abused, and basically meaningless. It's more like a grunt than a statement.
Whatever, I guess it doesn't matter what I think.
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