(Please let me know if you have any others to add to this list.)
To pick one’s brain
Flesh out
No dice
Keep your eyes peeled
Touch base
Crevasse
Spork
Impactful
(to) Network
(to) Gift
Synergy/Synergistic/Synergism
Verbiage
Guesstimate
Irregardless
Utilize
Insightful
Über
Ignoramus
Ek-specially
Ek-scape
Real-a-tor
Ath-a-lete
Lastly
Thusly
Acrosst
Delish, EVOO, Sammy, and all other Rachael Ray-isms
LOL, OMG, and all other IM abbreviations
February 4, 2005 at 11:37 am |
Birfday
Valentime’s Day
Reoccurring
At the end of the day
February 4, 2005 at 5:53 pm |
How-de-doo-dee
That’s phat
(to) come by
cooleeo
fif-tee (fifty)
February 11, 2005 at 3:51 pm |
Oh, I HAVE to add this one:
Heighth
March 18, 2005 at 4:20 pm |
“NUK-you-ler”
March 22, 2005 at 6:12 pm |
“the Heimlich remover”
…spoken by a radio talk show host
March 23, 2005 at 3:04 pm |
A-MUR-ican or Turr-ur-rists
… as pronounced by President George W. Bush.
April 26, 2005 at 9:30 am |
“Conversate” – its “Converse” oh that drives me crazy
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July 22, 2005 at 11:20 am |
“back in the Nine-Dees”
“grow your business”
“on a go-forward basis”
July 28, 2005 at 4:18 pm |
Am-ber-crombie (& Fitch)
Victoria Secret’s (instead of Victoria’s Secret
warsh (I need to warsh my red shirt.)
August 31, 2005 at 2:16 pm |
“hit the gym”
January 14, 2006 at 10:06 am |
“Look Outside Of The Box”.
That one really fookin annoys me.
February 8, 2006 at 3:46 pm |
“ramping up” — AAARRRGH!!!!!
“game on” and “give profs” also, UGH!!
(from KS)
May 14, 2006 at 4:11 pm |
“Its about….” and “That being said” STOP IT PEOPLE!!!!!
July 29, 2006 at 11:25 pm |
“I was struck by”… some politician’s comment. Get struck by a brick!
August 7, 2006 at 9:13 pm |
They say! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
August 18, 2006 at 11:46 am |
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?
August 24, 2006 at 9:16 am |
Jew-la-ree
Interface (as in “we need to interface with so-and-so about that…”)
Low-hanging fruit (more corporate-speak)
September 4, 2006 at 5:21 pm |
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)
September 27, 2006 at 11:35 am |
Ya but ~ Yabut??? It’s not a word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3, 2006 at 6:51 pm |
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.
December 7, 2006 at 4:06 pm |
“Basically . . . ”
“By the same token . . .”
Confusing “discreet” with “discrete”
January 25, 2007 at 12:40 am |
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
December 13, 2007 at 9:41 am |
“mines” instead of MINE. (This comment is mine.) (not mines)
“conversate” instead of CONVERSE.
December 18, 2007 at 12:29 am |
“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.
February 16, 2008 at 5:14 pm |
Bolleyball
February 20, 2008 at 2:12 pm |
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.”
May 7, 2008 at 4:07 am |
Well Anonymous,
if u stop thinking with ur “base”.. then maybe it wouldn’t so sluttish.
Move on.
November 7, 2008 at 11:39 pm |
“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”
April 14, 2009 at 10:43 am |
progidy.
April 14, 2009 at 10:55 am |
“I must of done that”
You must HAVE done it!
September 10, 2009 at 8:59 am |
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.