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The Most Annoying Word; Whatever
The word that annoys Americans most in conversation is the dismissive “whatever.”
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(October 8, 2009)--The word or phrase Americans find most annoying when used in conversations is “whatever,”
The popular slacker term of indifference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of American adults surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.
"Whatever" easily beat out "you know."
The other annoying contenders were "anyway," "it is what it is" and "at the end of the day."
"Whatever" has staying power.
Immortalized in song by Nirvana in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in "Clueless" later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people.
Pollsters at the college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. surveyed 938 U.S. adults by telephone.
The margin of error is 3.2 percentage points.
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Posted by: Rachel
Location: Temple
on Oct 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Whatever is certainly annoying, but the prize absolutely has to go to "my bad". I am so sick of hearing this that I just want to scream. The other one that I absolutely will not allow my children to say is "mines". It's mines?
Posted by: LM
Location: Tx
on Oct 10, 2009 at 08:36 AM
For me it is: "no way" and especially the response to it, "way". Why can't people make complete sentences any more? Are we all really that lazy?
Posted by: Sam Bam
Location: centx
on Oct 9, 2009 at 09:24 AM
I disagree. obama is the most annoying.
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