Most Overused Words and Phrases of 2009

My nominations.

1. FAIL

2. Epic

3. Wall street...(yada yada yada).. Mainstreet

What are yours? (I am looking for pop culture more than flounder)

Going Green.

clean coal.

Green jobs.

unprecedented.

Worst [fill in the blank] since the Great Depression.

clean coal.

Green jobs.

unprecedented.

Worst [fill in the blank] since the Great Depression.

Words I wish to never hear again:

____ Czar

Tiger

Woods

Gosselin

Type Q wrote: My nominations. 1. FAIL 2. Epic 3. Wall street...(yada yada yada).. Mainstreet What are yours? (I am looking for pop culture more than flounder)

Mainstreet get's my vote

Octomom. The vagina is NOT A clown car.

HOT

thanks to her:

Economic recovery

Healthcare reform

Any phrase that ends with "crisis"

un-precedented

Tofu

In reply to DukeOfUndersteer:

Hawt

Fixed!

Change.

Carbon footprint.

Bailout.

Main Street.

Man Made [issue - event] I can't think of the word, it replaces Terrorism.

I fight the Global War on Terrorism, but can't call it that.

GWOT (gee - wot) rolls off the tongue easier....

oldsaw wrote: In reply to DukeOfUndersteer: Hawt Fixed!

ah. Thank you

"In today's economy"
"In Today's Job Market"

"Smart"

Smart car, smart phone, etc

Stimulus

--or--

Economic Stimulus

......anyone??

Economic downturn

Stimulus package (seconded times eleventy billion)

Carbon neutral

Twenty dollars (now that my kids are in high school, it seems that's all I ever hear from them!)

Margie

Going Forward.

The following terms have jumped the shark:

• Jumped the Shark
• Learn me (thing)
• That'll buff right out
• Swine Flu
• Give something back
• Kayne West
• Glenn Beck
• anything on TV whatsoever having to do with NASCAR drivers that are not busy driving during the program

“Piece” as in, I’ll take care of the financial piece while you get the logistical piece squared away. The term gets upgraded from passé to infuriating if the individual holds out one of their hands in a cupping fashion as to symbolically hold the piece.

'It is what it is'

I really hate that one.

81gtv6 wrote: Going Forward.

This. Hate this E36 M3 at my job.

I'm surprised, no one has said this:

ANY word ending in ISTA.

This seems to have replaced words ending in AHOLIC.

Adding an i to your new product.. iPod, iPhone, iSnuggie

CaN I HaZ?

Dare I say.. Miata?

Possibly the E36 M3/Berkeley/etc. word replacement thing. You know how annoying that makes searching for E36, or Berkeley information on GRM?

New ones:

TWITTER

TWEET

FACEBOOK

starting in about 2001 everything was EXTREME...First bikes/skateboards/rollerblades, then it spread to other sports, then clothing, then eventually even your yogurt could be extreme.

In an Unprecedented Economic Downturn, Hawt Extreme yogurt on Mainstreet is an Epic Fail.