<p>My pet peeve is “no problem” in place of “you’re welcome.” "</p>
<p>Even worse----</p>
<p>Me: “Thank you”</p>
<p>Cashier: barely audible grunt></p>
<p>With particularly surly clerks who say nothing, I’ve been known to brightly announce, “You’re welcome!” It dazzles them into realizing they should have said thank you. Or so I delude myself.</p>
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<p>Mantori - I agree, I can’t stand “ginormous” either. Both sound like something a preschooler made up.</p>
<p>I also can’t stand the use of the word “sucks”. Sorry, I find it rude and vulgar.</p>
<p>The use of “so, yeah…” when beginning their sentences annoys me!</p>
<p>Awesome drives me wild. It is overused around here.</p>
<p>Lilmom–I was going to add “so, yeah” as a sentence ender. it tends to be an early twenties thing. “The rent is due, I haven’t been paid yet, so…yeah.”</p>
<p>Meanig somethin along the lines of: --the point is obvious: I’m assuming you’ll see it-- (said with a tone of ironic resignation).</p>
<p>Another word I can’t stand is “anyhoo”. Drives me nuts. I do like the way Ellen Degeneres says “anyway” at during the closing credits of her show - that long, drawn out sigh of an “anyway”.</p>
<p>I hate when sales people say “Exactly” a number of times. Also, “Chillax” is very annoying. I do not understand the whole British thing with “Brilliant”.</p>
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<p><em>Anybody</em> declaring that something sucks is repugnant.</p>
<p>I saw this report on the Today show and " SHUT UP !! " was right up there on the list
That one bothers me, as do some of the others her, but I guess I have become accustomed to so many of them that they no longer register.
I do cringe when my daughter ( age 12 ) says, " So,yeah " and carries on in her sentence
…and uptalk can send shivers down my spine too</p>
<p>^^ I just saw this post on the Financial Aid forum right before I read lje62’s comment:</p>
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<p>I haven’t really heard “so yeah” all that much, but now I’m probably going to start hearing it everywhere :)</p>
<p>“Ying” and Yang.</p>
<p>It is annoying when people say literally and they do not mean literally…</p>
<p>Warsh-ington or Or-EE-gone. There’s no R, and it’s pronounced “OR-UH-GUN”.</p>
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<p>Even if it’s a Minnesotan explaining how Wisconsin contributes to the amount of wind there?</p>
<p>Ditto “not so much” and beginning a sentence with “So.” My personal pet peeve, though: “over top of.” When did this replace “on top of”?</p>
<p>Patsmom–that’s a perfect example of the ending “so yeah” I was trying to describe. My D and her college friends used it constantly; I think maybe they’ve finally grown out of it.</p>
<p>A couple from college compositions that make me nuts:</p>
<p>“I feel as if” and “I feel as though” --yes, we do allow “I” these days, but all that squishiness just negated the point you went on to make.</p>
<p>I was going to say what Midwestmom said about “literally” – also I don’t like middle-aged people saying “awesome.”</p>
<p>I heard a new one the other day that would drive me crazy if I heard it again. Someone said, “Wouldn’t such and such just be adorable?” and another person responded, “Beyond!”
Hope that isn’t catching on somewhere.</p>
<p>And what’s with the kids saying “legit”?</p>
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<p>I found the “good amount” to be more jarring than the “so yeah”.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s a regional thing but where I’m from people waited for you, not on you, unless you were at a restaurant. People seem to say it all the time and each time my brain twitches a little. I’m a punctual person so they don’t have to wait on me very often.</p>
<p>True that, zoeydoggie! ;)</p>