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Without question, “a-ha moment” needs to be retired.
That being said.
I’ll offer two.
Win/Win and Whatever.
“that being said…” I agree with Kirby! That’s one of my greatest pet peeves.
Here’s part of my collection of bad boys:
“in the end”
“the bottom line”
“critique” as a verb
“sustainable”
“at the end of the day”
“global warming” (I want to hear “climate change”)
“interface” when “interact” is meant
“going forward”
“unprecedented”
“it is what it is”
“So” at the beginning of a story- ok if there’s a long pause- but it bugs me if it’s just a little word stuck in there.
“at the end of the day”
I agree with all the irritants mentioned by the other folks.
Feels good to get this off my chest.
Oh yeah, all of those! Also-
“dialog” as a verb
Any scandal name ending with gate
“yummy” -please people how old are we?
“a-MAZE-ing” – not everything can be amazing.
“as well” – usually redundant
“hello?” – as in “well yeah, of course”
“at the end of the day” and “that being said” are major irritants, as noted above.
Thanks for letting me get out the red pen! I will probably come back with more.
Anything with the word kardashian in it.
ps. appologies to kirby and bob, i used one of your most hated just
just the other blog ago…
Jill – – Yes, OMG! “So, …” as the beginning of a sentence that is in response to a query by some interviewer.
A few months ago I would have scratched my head and wondered whether I’d missed something, as though there was a big dropout in the audio and the response was some continuation of a thought, the first part of which, poof!, escaped in to the radio aether! I hope I’m not finally becoming desensitized to this travesty. This is a very recent phenomenon and it’s taken off like wildfire. It seems unlike any other linguistic “thing” of late. It’s like a tic. I’m guessing it’s a time-consuming placeholder, something like the non-word “ah” or “um”, but the problem is, well, it is a word! Does anyone know where or when this started? It seems to be nearly the exclusive domain of research PhDs and their assistants.
Someone, quickly, call up A Way With Words.
On a professional note, I hate the use of “producer” when refering to a farmer.
When the interviewee responds “That’s an excellent question”, it makes me want to throw something and say “just answer the question!!”
“So”, at the beginning of a story doesn’t bother me that much. In the south and mid-west, stories always start with ” Well…” It’s just a way of saying shut-up for a moment and listen.
Exspecially, ekcetera, stastistics, opthamologist, ampitheater, ying and yang, catheterization, veteraninarian, reality, and nucular.
The one that motivated the question:
“…the run up to…”
Usually used in sports, war or political stories–the run up to the election, the run up to the invasion, the run up to the final four.
In general, I am offended by sports metaphors showing up in news reports about war, or war metaphors used in sports coverage. It trivializes the brutality of war and inflates the importance of sports.
“gone missing or went missing or go missing”
“blah, blah, blah”
“most unique”
BFRVolpe reminded me of my dislike for “excape”. Add nucular to my list too!
Thanks for asking!
Barb-
I believe it’s pronounced “axsking”
too-tight-
Used the way “Well” is at the beginning of the story, it’s fine. What bothers me is when there’s no pause… which means the following phrase is a result of the preceeding one.. which is not true in many cases.
All of the above plus “I was so shocked” and do reporters really need to call everything a miracle when someone doesn’t die?
I forgot diptheria.