Are There Any Words I Hate? Absolutely... ; Hat Is It About Simple Little Words That Can Get Us so Riled? Even If We Love the Language, There Are Always New Words and Aphorisms Cropping Up That Are Guaranteed to Irritate Even the Most Open- Minded of English Speakers.

Western Morning News, The › January 11, 2009

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Hat is it about simple little words that can get us so riled? Even if we love the language, there are always new words and aphorisms cropping up that are guaranteed to irritate even the most open-minded of English speakers.

The maxim-maulers of Lake Superior State University in the USA know this. They have just released their 34th annual "list of words and phrases banished from the Queen's English for misuse, over-use and general uselessness".

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Are There Any Words I Hate? Absolutely... ; Hat Is It About Simple Little Words That Can Get Us so Riled? Even If We Love the Language, There Are Always New Words and Aphorisms Cropping Up That Are Guaranteed to Irritate Even the Most Open- Minded of English Speakers.

More power to their elbow. Or maybe not - that being a phrase which annoys the hell out of a lot of people.

Having watched the university's hate-list (sorry, another phrase loathed by many) for several years now, I am a little surprised to see that the gap between British English and Ameri...

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