What are your language pet peeves?
Here are some phrases that drive communicators up the wall.
“Mom, Bryan’s using potty words. He said ‘utilize.’”
We’ve reached the stage in my house where my kids use bad grammar and language gaffes to annoy me. Whether it’s saying “utilize” over and over at the dinner table or referring to their homework as “deliverables,” they know how to exasperate the word nerd in me.
Here are some of their favorites. How many of these make you cringe?
Worthless verbs
Words that aren’t words
Slang and acronyms
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