(Please feel free to add others to this list.)
To pick one’s brain
Flesh out
No dice
Keep your eyes peeled
Touch base
At the end of the day
At this point in time / at this moment in time
I personally
With all due respect
Fairly unique (or very unique)
Literally
Shouldn’t of
24-7
It is what it is
Impactful
(to) Network
(to) Gift
Synergy/Synergistic/Synergism
Man cave
Ginormous
Guesstimate
Irregardless
Reoccur/Reoccurring
Utilize
Insightful
Amazing
Just sayin’
Whatever
Über
Ignoramus
Ek-specially
Ek-scape
Real-a-tor
Ath-a-lete
Lastly
Thusly
Acrosst
Delish, EVOO, Sammy, Stoup, and all other Rachael Ray-isms
LOL, OMG, ROFL, etc.
Birfday
Valentime’s Day
Reoccurring
At the end of the day
How-de-doo-dee
That’s phat
(to) come by
cooleeo
fif-tee (fifty)
Oh, I HAVE to add this one:
Heighth
“NUK-you-ler”
“the Heimlich remover”
…spoken by a radio talk show host
A-MUR-ican or Turr-ur-rists
… as pronounced by President George W. Bush.
“Conversate” – its “Converse” oh that drives me crazy
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“back in the Nine-Dees”
“grow your business”
“on a go-forward basis”
Am-ber-crombie (& Fitch)
Victoria Secret’s (instead of Victoria’s Secret
warsh (I need to warsh my red shirt.)
“hit the gym”
“Look Outside Of The Box”.
That one really fookin annoys me.
“ramping up” — AAARRRGH!!!!!
“game on” and “give profs” also, UGH!!
(from KS)
“Its about….” and “That being said” STOP IT PEOPLE!!!!!
“I was struck by”… some politician’s comment. Get struck by a brick!
They say! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Let me “axe” you a question. (ask)
We are funded by the “physical” year. (fiscal)
I a speaking “pacifically” to you! (specifically)
BTW, I think your 100 things list is one of the best I have ever read. But did you know that you seem to have spelled “abbreviations” as “appreviations” in item 6 while you are discussing grammar errors? Perhaps it was deliberate?
Jew-la-ree
Interface (as in “we need to interface with so-and-so about that…”)
Low-hanging fruit (more corporate-speak)
Who will “champion” this? (ugh!!!!)
Let’s be “proactive.”
Have you done your “due diligence”?
sim-u-lar
burt-day
(the same person says both of the above words this way)
Ya but ~ Yabut??? It’s not a word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Open 24/7 – If you never close, just say it.
like (simile abuse) – as in “I was like going to like tell you that he like did it.”
audibilize – John Madden drove me mad with that one.
Improper use of who and that – It should be “people who” and “things that,” not “people that.”
free gift – If it’s not free, it is not a gift.
All’s I know … – All I know is that you don’t know English.
My bad. – Your bad what?
Have a nice day! You won’t make me!
Misuse of guys when including females in a greeting.
Inclusion of the word guys as in “How are you guys?” The pronoun you survived for generations with out the help of “guys,” except in the South of America where it required “all.”
“With all due respect …” usually followed by a comment that means essentially “I think your ideas are a pile of ….”
Empower – pull the plug quickly.
“Basically . . . ”
“By the same token . . .”
Confusing “discreet” with “discrete”
Hi, I have a few.
Actresses calling themselves “actors”
throw-up one’s hands (yuck!)why not throw one’s hands up instead?
“strong” woman (as applied to any woman)
“real” beauty-which is anything but
“mines” instead of MINE. (This comment is mine.) (not mines)
“conversate” instead of CONVERSE.
“ex-presso.” it’s espresso. ssss.
and “irregardless.” it’s not a word, folks.
it also really bothers me when people put their punctuation outside of their quotation marks.
Bolleyball
the worst comment i hear at work is “just wanted to touch base with you.” i mean what does this mean? i want to forward this page to the ignorant slut who messaged me with the phrase “touch base.”
Well Anonymous,
if u stop thinking with ur “base”.. then maybe it wouldn’t so sluttish.
Move on.
“Um” at the beginning of every sentence.
“He threw her under the bus”
“Let’s run it up the flag pole”
“Let’s make that an action item”
“We’ll incent the customer to better leverage the relationship”
progidy.
“I must of done that”
You must HAVE done it!
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
“back in the day” when one is referring to something that happened a couple of months ago!