>>I just came across a word I seem to see more and more, and it sets my teeth on edge every time. The word is "stakeholders." Something about it just rubs me the wrong way. It sounds like such a made-up word, something a management consultant might say. Or maybe a life coach <g>.
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>>It would be premature to call it the MOST annoying word, so let's call it just a contender.
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>>What words annoy you? (single words, not phrases)
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>Supremacist - It should be Supremist, but the uneducated boobs at CNN decided otherwise.
Conversate - another neologism from the hood. It's "converse", not conversate.
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