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Ohwhatatuesday
Beginner May 2014

What words and phrases do you overuse?

Ohwhatatuesday, 21 January, 2014 at 21:27 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 31

I was in a meeting talking to someone today when it occurred to me I said 'to be fair' about 90 times in the space of two minutes. It's one of my most overused phrases. That and 'do you know what I mean' at the end of almost every sentence. I say them so much it even annoys me, let alone the people around me. I also use cool and awesome far too much (I think i'm stuck in the 90s).

Do you have any words or phrases you know you use too much?

31 replies

Latest activity by clarehj, 23 January, 2014 at 19:48
  • erincat
    Beginner August 2013
    erincat ·
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    According to my H I say "really?" too much & my latest word is mega! No idea where that came from!

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  • BowlingBride
    Beginner September 2012
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    I'm fairly new at work so ask lots of questions, whatever answer I get I say lovely thanks. My overuse of the word lovely is doing my nut by only catch myself saying it after its already said!

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  • MummyMoo82
    Beginner October 2012
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    Dreamcatchme I'm exactly the same. I say 'like' a bit too much as well. Although not, like, in like, Clueless.

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  • *Funky*
    Beginner January 2001
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    "like", "really?" "basically"

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  • *Teabag*
    Beginner June 2013
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    I say 'at the end of the day' waaaay too much. I should read one of the dictionaries that we publish and learn some new words!

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  • ~Peanut~
    Beginner December 2012
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    I say "like" way too much.

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  • M
    Beginner May 2014
    Muppet ·
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    'Basically" rarely a sentence goes by with out me using that word.

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  • Holey
    Beginner July 2011
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    I say 'really?' a lot and realised I say 'insane' to mean something is good. It was only when I was with my 16 year old sister at the weekend and she said it that irealsied that's probably where I picked it up from

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  • laurafish
    Beginner July 2016
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    I think I say "like" quite a lot, and "do you know what I mean"? is my go-to phrase when I'm explaining anything. Other than that not many. I say 'positive' words sarcastically quite a lot - "Fantastic." "Brilliant." "Excellent." and so on.

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  • F&GBride
    Beginner May 2014
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    "fab" or "fabulous" - must have watched sex and the city too many times!

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  • Hoddy
    Beginner July 2014
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    'If that makes sense'

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  • far2calm
    Beginner May 2012
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    Mine is 'seemingly' love it though, so I'm not going to stop! ha

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  • Cilla
    Beginner April 2012
    Cilla ·
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    I say 'to be fair' a lot too. OH says 'if you know what I mean' a LOT! Once he was talking to me about something serious and said 'if you know what I mean if you know what I mean'. He didn't even realised he'd done it until I started to smirk and giggle

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  • tayto
    Beginner May 2013
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    "Essentially" - I started using it to replace basically (advice from recruiter when in interviews) and unfortunately cannot stop.

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  • McFarley
    Beginner September 2014
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    Yep, "to be fair" is a regularly used one fropm me too (even when it blatently isn;t actually fair. "To be honest" and "At the end of the day" also feature very highly too (but then, to be fair (!), I do spend a lot of time during my day explaining things to people).

    My favourite word at the moment which I use pretty much all the time in relaiton to good things is "amazeballs". It's my replacement for cool, lol x

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  • McFarley
    Beginner September 2014
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    Ps - sorry about the atrocious typing - the keyboard clearly can't keep up with me... ?

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  • W
    Beginner February 2014
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    "like" (wayyyy too much, but I don't realise!), "to be fair/fair play" and more recently "funnily enough" (what's that about!!)

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  • cass_b
    Beginner April 2014
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    To be fair, really and no problem. Those are the ones that spring to mind...

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  • Skinnyrock
    Dedicated July 2023 Suffolk
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    Its not something I say but really can't stand it when people say 'no offence!' normally after saying something horribly offensive.

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  • *J9*
    VIP March 2014
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    "like", "to be fair", "really"

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  • Sambride
    Beginner April 2014
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    'No worries', with a slight Australian twang (Im not Australian and have never even been there)

    Very Crocodile Dundee esq.

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  • Ali_G
    Beginner October 2012
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    I say "shut up" way too often. But more Princess Diaries than TOWIE.

    I also say "like" too much.

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  • 1234ABC
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    'Oh My Goodness!' I say this to my son far too much.

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  • Erin8
    Beginner June 2014
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    This is one of mine along with:

    Really?

    If you see what l mean

    Basically....

    To be fair

    At the end of the day

    Lovely

    All very annoying for everyone else l am sure!

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  • *Mini*
    Beginner January 2012
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    I've caught myself saying 'no worries' far too much recently. I hate it.

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  • leni-lw!
    Beginner November 2011
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    Mine are all in welsh so no point putting them up on here ? but yeah I do tend to overuse some words

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  • *gnashers*
    Beginner October 2013
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    'fvck' and any derivative of it.

    Terrible potty mouth, me.

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  • Panjita
    Beginner May 2011
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    I overuse "Oh my god" and "thank god" way too much. And I don't even believe in god/gods. I've been trying to change it and instead saying "oh my word" or "oh my goodness". SD says "Oh my days" but I think that sounds a bit ghetto and not something that you would expect to come out of my mouth.

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  • clarehj
    Beginner April 2012
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    ha I think "oh my days" sounds really ghetto too!

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