Top Ten Most Annoying Phrases

“We grow tired of anything that is repeated too often – an anecdote, a joke, a mannerism,” author Jeremy Butterfield says. “The same seems to happen with some language.” University of Oxford researchers seem to have had a bit of free time on their hands, so they consulted the Oxford University Corpus and made a list of the phrases they found the most annoying. As a blogger I tend to write without doing a lot of editing. So I tend to use some phrases more often than I should, repeat myself, and well, sometimes annoy my readers. At the end…

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