I know what you mean, I but I always thought that the “zhan” sound was an Italian-Americanism in the same vain as “pasta fazool”, rather than Americans trying to sound Italian and failing.
I hate “pop”, too, especially as in “make-up that makes your eyes really pop”. Argh.
Sorry Americans, but I can’t stand “gross”.
A more British one (I think) is “bubbly” to describe a - usually female - person’s character. It’s meant to be compliment, even.
“Fail” and “Win”, for that matter, can go right the hell along with “Epic”. Three perfectly good, useful words tarnished by being in the mouths of idiots. Worse, they have migrated out of cell phone texts and internet slang and into the real world. Reasonable, intelligent adults utilizing these tortured usages in order to seem hip and “with it” to the young people, the fools.
Can we just go back to using them properly, please? Is that so much to ask?
p.s. Yeah, yeah, I wrote “utilize” up there. Sue me. I thought ‘use’ and ‘usage’ so close in the same sentence was more clunky.
Woody and Tinny Words.
Not the most well-known Monty Python sketch, but one of my favourites. Because it is so, so very silly, and also has a woody ring of authenticity to it. 
Handi-capable. Differently-abled.
Blahhhh!
I literally die when I hear the misuse of this word. (But when is that, exactly?)
As sit-down comic (he has CP) Chris Fonseca (who has to speak slowly to be understood) says in his act, in reference to these terms, and other PC terms, like “physically challenged”: “I haven’t got that kind of time.”
If you ever have a chance to catch his act, he’s really funny. After Wanda Sykes and John Mulaney, Chris Fonseca is probably my favorite comic.
If this was mentioned earlier in the thread and I missed it, my apologies.
I nominate “You know what?” as an intro to a following opinion or statement. I’ve heard it increasingly in interviews with sports figures, but also in other contexts. Sometimes it seems the speaker is trying to interject a note of aggressiveness into what he’s saying, while at other times it’s used as a stalling placeholder, just as “you know” is.
In either case, it sounds incredibly juvenile to me.
Fair’s fair. Black jazz musicians took “daddy-o” from the Irish.
Someone differently abled is someone who can’t see but can shoot lasers from his palms.
Also, both of those imply that having a disability is so horrible and demeaning that God forbid you should ever actually say it.
The “zh” pronunciation is just wrong* and seems to be down to confusion with the pronunciation of “Parmigiano-Reggiano”, perhaps because of the Italian American habit of dropping the last syllable “Parmigian”.
*you know what I mean, ultra-descriptivists
Can we just ban sports reporters from interviewing athletes and coaches? That would handle a raft of problems right there.
"Being a new mom… "
Little OT, but I’d like also to ban people from asking women who just had their first baby “How do you like being a mom?”
What is a woman supposed to answer? Is there anything acceptable other than “It’s great!” or “I like it”? I said “comme ci, comme ca,” to someone once, trying to be funny, and she looked like she was about to run off and call CPS. What if a woman’s honest answer is “I hate this, and I can’t wait until he sleeps more than three hours at a time,” or even “I’m wondering if I didn’t make a mistake”? Those women are going to be made to feel even worse by everyone’s obvious assumption that they’re all blissful. Yes, it gets better, and it actually gets better pretty quickly and steadily, but taking care of a newborn is hard.
There are a lot of terms and phrases that seem to be used only by news anchors that fall into this category, but the ones that come to mind right now are:
“temblor” for earthquake - why not just say earthquake? Everyone else does.
“greater alarm” fire - I don’t even know what it’s supposed to mean, technically. It’s obviously a big fire, at least in its context, or you wouldn’t have taken time out of your 25-minute newscast to tell us about it.
I once heard a comedian describe the reaction from friends-with-kids that they were expecting with Awwww! Ohhhhh…
That about sums it up.
Ugggg…ok big reveal… I read a TON of fashion magazines. :smack:
so so so tired of reading the word “pop” as in,
" your eyes will pop with this subtle light blue color"
also Im tired of calling trends “of the moment”
or
“on trend”
That to me, makes me thing you are not only unfashionable, you are FADDISH! :eek:
“Price point”. Die, price point.
I say “seism.” 
“Pop of color” drives me absolutely positively batshit crazy.