Monday, August 8, 2011

Verbal Viruses: What Words Make You Cringe?

OK, so normally we talk about real viruses here, but let's have fun for a sec, shall we? CNN ran a clip recently that totally made me laugh--a compilation of people's most-hated words, which they called "verbal viruses." Too funny! I definitely have a list of hated-words, how about you?


The words that made it to the CNN most-hated list:


*Recession


*Watchamacallit


*Absolutely


*Hater


Yeah, I don't like the word "recession." It bums me out. I also hated the word "maverick" during the election season (it just got so old!). Current words that make my list:


*Maxi (both the dress and the pad ... shivers up my spine!)


*Nook (and cranny)


*Palpitate (gross!)


*Basically (you know, when people say "basically" before every single sentence?)


I could go on and on.


Tell me, what word or words make your most-hated list?

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