Words that annoy ...

[Andy in Sig]

I think the word that has most consistently got up my nose over a considerable period of time is "feisty". What people tend to mean by it is "stroppy" which is much more effective.

There must be more ...

 

[Maz]

Leverage, when used in project management speak.
AGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[phaedrus]

A phrase rather than a word - something "ticks all the boxes"...

 

[phaedrus]

Upskilling

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

I find "lifestyle" annoys me much more than it should. I think it comes from those freeby magazines that you see lying around in supermarkets and the like, you know the "with today's busy lifestyle, it can be hard to <insert whatever the article is about>" kind of thing.

I tend to flick through that kind of thing if I'm waiting for someone or something in the shop, hit the first article that includes the word "lifestyle" and then put it down.

 

[02GF74]

much of a muchness - WTF?!?!?!?!?

 

[Andy in Sig]

I find "lifestyle" annoys me much more than it should. I think it comes from those freeby magazines that you see lying around in supermarkets and the like, you know the "with today's busy lifestyle, it can be hard to <insert whatever the article is about>" kind of thing.

I tend to flick through that kind of thing if I'm waiting for someone or something in the shop, hit the first article that includes the word "lifestyle" and then put it down.

And of course with "lifestyle" comes the blatant over-use of "options".

And in business it is "solutions".

 

[Hover Fly]

Empower/ment/ing and so on.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

anything on a bullshit bingo card…

 

[Greedo]

fusion........


Fusion food
Fusion businesses
Fusion this...
Fusion that.....

And people who name businesses with this word in them should be shot IMHO

 

[swee'pea99]

I use all those. (Apart from 'upskilling', which is an abomination.)

This one made me literally shudder the other day: "What brings you to Curry's today?"

 

[NickM]

Readers of this thread would probably enjoy Ed Reardon's Week.

I have every episode since Series 2 on my hard drive

 

[velocidad]

so many words and phrases irritate me these days. but feedback, rostered day off, played (was used as a shortened version of well played, now used to mean you've done something good, achieved something, or most irritating that you have gotten away with something) and sticking literally in all over the place.

 

[User482]

zeitgeist
chutzpah


Only ever used by pretentious journalists...

 

[Alan Frame]

Absolutely eveything these days appears to be "iconic", and even the mundane is termed " quite unique"....if it's unique, there's only one FFS !