Ooh, that last one’s a bit unfortunate, yeah?
I’m so sick of the word “issues”!
Phrase: “Thinking outside the box.” ARRRRGGGGHHH.
liased — What a butcher of the root word “liason.”
Or liaison, even.
I don’t like how the word “task” has become a verb. The show Alias was particularly guilty of this, as in, “Sloane has tasked Sydney to extract the microchip.” So annoying.
I once saw the verb “visioning” on a poster. Is it so hard to write “envisioning”?
Brainstorm
Dynamic (it even pissed me off to type that one)
Offline. As in: “let’s take that discussion offline.” Doesn’t anyone say “ask me about it later” anymore?
Can you tell I’ve been in management meetings today?
I agree with ‘blogosphere’ (or indeed ‘blog’ at all - it’s a fucking diary, or a webpage, make up your mind). And ‘whilst’, the least necessary word in the world.
Gusset - even typing it makes me cringe
Soccer - obvious 
Synergy - when used incorrectly, i.e. 99% of the time
You’re talking about a new use of the word, whereas ‘Sydney was tasked by the extraction procedure’ would fit with historical usage.
Lately, I’ve been seeing a commercial for Susquehanna bank, and the tagline is: “Susquehanna: a smarter way to money” Ack! Makes my ears bleed every time I hear it (but not literally
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“Proactive” is still on my list. And there’s a tv weatherguy in these parts who likes to use the phrase “liquid precipitation.” I guess “rain” isn’t good enough for him.
By the way, does anyone remember when “medicine” became “medication?”
Nope, nobody remembers it
Coming from French (médication), it dates from the 17th century.
I think it was when the meds prescribed to kids outnumbered the cough syrups and children’s aspirins handed out by moms.
A second on “impact” when “affect” is meant. Bad enough itself, it has now spawned the adjective “impactful”.
“Grow” as in “grow your business” or “grow your money”. Do your growing your own damn self, don’t inflict it on inanimate objects. (OK, you can grow houseplants. But that’s it.)
Oxymoron: Especially since although I have seen and heard it used hundreds of times in the past few years, I have yet to hear it used correctly.
Cf: “to office”, as used by Kinko’s and Herbert Kornfeld.
Robin
The expression “quality time” really annoys me, like when someone says that they need to spend quality time with the kids. You either play with them, or you don’t.
Another white suburban mom thing is the word “fun” used out of context. For example; “I like your shirt - it’s so fun”, or “That walpaper is such a fun pattern”. :rolleyes:
Wallpaper, not Walpaper. I don’t even shop there!

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for chrissakes, people, your Web site should work without the www by now - and if it doesn’t get a goddamned new host!
infamous
can’t you just be famous… no we have to go beyond and be INFAMOUS.
Along this line, I’ll quote a rant I posted in an MMP a while back about Webster’s Word of 2005:
“Notorious” or “notoriety” used synonymously with “famous”. It has a negative connotation, dammit!
When I was a kid, I hated “pregnant” so much I couldn’t say it. No, I don’t have any kids (big surprise, eh?).
Mosey
Bogus
Metrosexual
Dub Dub Dub (for www)
Podcast/iPodder
Punter
Nullity/Orthogonal (Mathematical)
…and I’ll second Oxymoron