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Oxford lets us know about annoying figures of speech...

article posted Nov 7, 13:39

So, it looks like some serious (tempted to use the dreaded scare quotes for that one) work was done and researchers have come up with a list of the most annoying words and phrases floating around the language.

Enjoy.