What phrase or high jacked word bugs you ?
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CallMeKate
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- Mid-Atlantic US
"Reach out"
IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
Hearing people say "My Bad" as opposed to 'I'm sorry' or 'excuse me' really puts my bloomers in a bunch.
Dr.Colosso
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Judycat
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Woken. The bastardized version of awoke or was/were awakened. Even newscasters are using it now. Drives me up a wall. Woken. Ugh, ya. 
David777
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As a serious landscape and nature photographer since the 1980s, news media coined the 2016 wildflower bloom in Death Valley, a superbloom. Now, pin-headed news media persons tend to label any unusual patch of wildflowers anywhere, a SUPERBLOOM. And each spring, as soon as wildflowers begin to appear after any wet winters as the one we are now entering, the same news media spews out stories using that term.
Though any of this is trivial, it is an example of how media and social media corrupt meanings of language.
Though any of this is trivial, it is an example of how media and social media corrupt meanings of language.
Lawrence00
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"How are you". They don't want to know, don't care. Acknowledgement that you are seen and Good Morning is good enough.
I am always interested i n the origins of figures of speech.
Pushing the envelope for example - it wasn't made up by guys in prison
The phrase was used with some frequency within the fields of space flight and aviation, but it found its way to general audiences when it appeared in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 award-winning nonfiction novel The Right Stuff, about the Mercury Seven astronauts as well as other test pilots of rocket-propelled aircraft, most notably Chuck Yeager.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/push-the-envelope-idiom-space-aeronautics-origin
Pushing the envelope for example - it wasn't made up by guys in prison
The phrase was used with some frequency within the fields of space flight and aviation, but it found its way to general audiences when it appeared in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 award-winning nonfiction novel The Right Stuff, about the Mercury Seven astronauts as well as other test pilots of rocket-propelled aircraft, most notably Chuck Yeager.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/push-the-envelope-idiom-space-aeronautics-origin
OldFeller
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- Pennsylvania, USA
"Its a game changer" more in TV commercials than in conversation.
Its what they say about products nobody is likely to purchase.
Its what they say about products nobody is likely to purchase.
Capt Lightning
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Find your happy. Please tell me what a 'happy' is.
QuietByNature
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- SW End of Toronto
I worked with another manager who would always say this and it really started to get annoying
Sometimes when I hear that I respond by asking, "Do you really want to know?" To me its a real question.
My wife hates this one. I'll say it to bug her but check to see she hasn't got anything like a weapon close by first.
BJintheUK
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It annoys me when people use the word 'gaslighting' to describe something that is better described with the proper use of the English language. It took me a while to find out what 'gaslighting' meant, and when I did I was appalled that this word had been taken completely out of context and given a meaning that had nothing to do with its origins.
I mean, how does 'gaslighting' refer to keeping someone isolated from friends and family? The word came into use during the Victorian era when gas was used to light the streets of cities, so how does lighting the way using gas have anything to do with isolating and manipulating someone?
I mean, how does 'gaslighting' refer to keeping someone isolated from friends and family? The word came into use during the Victorian era when gas was used to light the streets of cities, so how does lighting the way using gas have anything to do with isolating and manipulating someone?