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[SaRina]

Ah, I wasn't going to complain today.... but wth. :-)

"Wooooooooooooooo!" (prolonged and in a very high-pitched voice)

"Sweeeeeet!"

"The 'girls'" or bosoms (referring to breasts)

"Chicks",  even "gals" (referring to women)

"Darling" (referring to how something, e.g. an outfit, looks)

ad nauseam - overused and usually misspelled

"Man cave"

"Stinkin' cute" - I have a perpetual sound byte in my head of Jane T. saying this... ad nauseam. :-D

I dislike seeing someone (usually a young child) making a bent arm fist pump towards his body, head down, at the same time saying "Yessssss!!"

That's enough for now. :-)

[Patriot3]

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@Oostende wrote:

FURBABY!!!!

It's a creepy mental image and I really dislike hearing adults use babytalk in everyday discourse.  

It might be cute on a four-year-old but those 5 years of age and older should refrain from using the word.

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Oh, furbaby, yes.  Unless you have 4 legs and fur, this is not your baby.  You did not give it birth.  Quit calling it your baby!

[JJsMom]

Overused words that have lost all meaning: entitled, snowflake, triggered, safe space. It's not clever when used as a dig. It's been beaten to death.

Generally, I hate platitudes like:

Everything happens for a reason

You're never given more than you can handle

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Time heals all wounds

All of them are false.

[Texasmouse]

Starting a sentence with "So"

Saying "speak to" when you mean "speak of" or "speak about"

"On the day".  What does that even mean??

Whole entire (it's redundant)

The thing that drives me the craziest though is when people use the singular "is" when referring to plural nouns, instead of "are".  For example, "there's four toys on the floor".

[Colinka]

Describing something as "fleek."  Where did that come from?

[Magny]

I agree with all your choices.  If someone already contributed these, my  apologies.

 "No brainer" which I consider a real insult, although a prominent vendor uses it all the time,

"PS & by the way"

[Caffeina]

"Quick question."

[occasionalrain]

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@Texasmouse wrote:

Starting a sentence with "So"

Saying "speak to" when you mean "speak of" or "speak about"

"On the day".  What does that even mean??

Whole entire (it's redundant)

The thing that drives me the craziest though is when people use the singular "is" when referring to plural nouns, instead of "are".  For example, "there's four toys on the floor".

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There is nothing wrong with, on the day. On the day that you were born...

[Texasmouse]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

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@Texasmouse wrote:

Starting a sentence with "So"

Saying "speak to" when you mean "speak of" or "speak about"

"On the day".  What does that even mean??

Whole entire (it's redundant)

The thing that drives me the craziest though is when people use the singular "is" when referring to plural nouns, instead of "are".  For example, "there's four toys on the floor".

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There is nothing wrong with, on the day. On the day that you were born...

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I agree it's used correctly in that example, however that's not the way I've heard it used, specifically by some of the QVC hosts.

[WenGirl42]

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@Karie2022 wrote:

Preggers

litterally

zhug it up (fashion term to tweak)

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@Karie2022 it has never occurred to me to wonder how that's spelled before...but I had to look it up!  So thank you...I learned something new today

If anyone else is curious, here's a blog explaining.  There isn't really consensus, but Oxford's got a dictionary entry for it as "zhoosh."

http://www.toryburch.com/blog-post/blog-post.html?bpid=67105

"Everyone zhooshes — that’s fashion speak for smartening up a look. We all know how to say it — /ˈZHo͝oSH/ — but it’s anyone’s guess on spelling it. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it’s zhoosh. But both Architectural Digest and The Independent go with zhuzh. Carson Kressley, who brought that term into popular parlance on Queer Eye nearly a decade ago, says tszuj. It can also be spelled as zhooj, soozh, tsuz, jhoosh and joozj. Or the French jeuge and Russian czuzh. (Thanks, Google!) Sure, you could go with words like primp or tweak or spruce or finesse, but zhoosh — however you spell it — just has that certain…je ne sais quoi."