Mike Shea has a nice list of phrases to be avoided (as well as writing rules from Orwell and Struck & White) here. Among my pet peeves on his list are “on steriods,” “think outside the box,” and “talk offline.” (But I have no idea what “goat rope” refers to.)
Herewith, a few of my additions, culled from everyday readings of stuff on the Web:
- (anything) from hell Even Matt Groening is tired of this one
- may or may not Just say may!
- impact as a verb
- loose for lose Why is this the most common misspelling I see nowadays? Lazy typing?
- alot for a lot But this lamentable misspelling has been around for years
- peak or peek when the writer means pique
- pour when the writer means pore As in “I poured over the pages” — what did you pour — milk?
- “ping so-and-so,” when the speaker means “contact” or “call”
- “Well,…” at the beginning of a sentence Way overused by journalists and columnists for the last several years
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\”Impact\” as averb is a personal pet peeve for me as well.\”Proactive\” is beyond redundant. One is either active or inactive.\”Way\” when one means \”much\” makes me insane. Now used routinely by NPR and other news outlets. I know that language changes over time — but must it be cheapened just to please teenagers?The use of an apostrophe before the \”s\” in words such as \”its\” when the meaning is not possessive likewise gives me the vapors — and one sees it now in advertising and in print generally. CD\’s, anyone?
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