Poll: The most annoying word of 2011 is …

Marist released its annual poll and found, like, whatever, you know—seriously—we’re just sayin’.

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Such scrutiny is probably annoying for those dictionaries—annoying like these words.

Marist announced the results of its annual poll of the most annoying word of the year. For the third straight year, “whatever” took the top honor, with 38 percent of poll respondents saying the word gets on their nerves.

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