The Most Annoying Word or Phrase Is…
It’s been a tough year for everyone on many levels, but as this blog also inquired last year at this time, what word or words that gained currency or continued to in 2020 get on your nerves the most?
Tag: upspeak
At year’s end, this blog discussed an extremely bothersome if not perhaps stomach-turning conversational technique known as uptalk or upspeak which has spread like an epidemic. It’s like chalk on a blackboard (assuming blackboards still exist). You’ve heard it all over television and radio even from broadcast professionals and the speech pattern has unfortunately seeped into day-to-day life. This is the tendency for a speaker to end a simple declarative clause or sentence as if it is a question.
The English language provides a beautiful way to communicate, but we could do without a few of its words, right? With New Year’s Eve upon us, the Marist Poll has revealed its list of most annoying words for 2018. It’s also that time of the season for the 2018 words of the year.
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