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Most overused/misused word lately?


I'm sick of hearing the word 'incredible' thrown around willy-nilly.

It also grinds my gears when people say 'nucular'.

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Snowflake. This wore out its welcome a long time ago, yet it's still being used.

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Aw, does it upset you widdle snowflake, lol.

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Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?

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I'm just kidding around.

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I assumed you were. No offense taken.

It still sounds ridiculous, though.

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Yes, my jokes tend to sound ridiculous. We could all do with a laugh with the year we've had.

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Overused.

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So, overused.

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Hybrid.
Sustainable.

Pretty much any Samsung add will incorporate every annoying word/trend that’s been popular for the last 5 minutes.

NucYOUlure is a great word.

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And you can really amp it up by pronouncing it "N-YOU-kyoo-lure."

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Back in the 80s that was the only way it was pronounced. It’s funny because it’s not spelled anything like new-Q-lure.

The way the computer pronounced it in War Games was the best.

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Mixing up “defuse” and “diffuse.” As in “trying to diffuse the situation.”

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racism/racist
"Peaceful Protest" or "Mostly Peaceful Protest"

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The most misused word on the internet (in terms of percentage that people use the wrong word in place of the correct word) is probably "yay", which gets misused about 99.99% of the time on the internet when people are calling for a vote:

Incorrect: "Yay or nay?"
Correct: "Yea or nay?"

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Queue the music.

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Yay! For pointing that out.

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I really hate "nu-cue-lar" as well. First time I heard it was from that idiot W, and it seems a bunch of ditto heads had to adopt it so as to make him sound a little less dense. Sickening the dumbing down of the USA.

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It's all over, not just the US. Especially galling is when you mention it to people and they say it "doesn't matter how you say it".

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