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Most annoying words of 2011
DO YOU want to kill a conversation? Try saying "whatever".
Words like "you know" and "like" might be irritating to hear, but for the third year in a row, it's "whatever" that holds the most power to annoy, according to an annual survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Nearly four in ten adults - or 38 per cent of the 1,026 people polled via telephone - named "whatever" as the most annoying verbal filler in casual conversation.
Find out which are the other annoying words which people commonly use:
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