Top 10 irritating phrases

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Oxford's list of top 10 irritating phrases:



  1. At the end of the day

  2. Fairly unique

  3. I personally

  4. At this moment in time

  5. With all due respect

  6. Absolutely

  7. It's a nightmare

  8. Shouldn't of

  9. 24/7

  10. It's not rocket science


Throw in "literally" and the list is complete. While grammatical mistakes are galling, I find verbal tics like "at the end of the day" or "literally" more annoying. Precision of language is precision of thought.


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