Academic

Overused Words and Phrases

By Ann Bartow

Lake Superior State University has an annual list overused words. For 2007 they were:

Perfect storm
Webinar
Waterboarding
Organic
Wordsmith/wordsmithing*
Post 9/11
Give back
Author/authored
?Blank? is the new ?Blank? or ?X? is the new ?Y?
Surge
Black Friday
Back in the day
Decimate
Random
Sweet
Emotional
Pop
It is what it is
Under the bus

*Oh, the irony.

Via. And…

Top Ten Most Annoying Phrases according to Oxford University

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

Via.

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).