It has just come to my attention that Time magazine carried out a poll of the most overused words of 2013. Here’s the list:-
- Twerk (It’s not the word that’s over the top)
- Selfie (This was also named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary!)
- Passion / Passionate (Especially in job interviews.)
- Look (The misuse thereof.)
- Robust (Political speak.)
- So (So is so overated.)
- Delivery (In management speak. Bullshit bingo anyone?)
- Project (Not everything is a project.)
- Hashtag (#)
- Amazeballs (I’ve never heard of it.)
- Doing (I don’t do that.)
- Absolutely (Absolutely!)
- Fail (Hashtag fail #Fail is a double whammy.)
- Responsible (Especially in CVs.)
- Anyway (Guilty as charged. Anyway, let’s get back to the list.)
- Yeah-No (Usually used by people who are jealous of the German word “Jein”.)
- Legacy (Especially when used to defend spending millions of taxpayer’s money.)
- Hipster (It’s just not hip.)
- Geek (Previously voted the word of the year by the Collins online dictionary.)
- Iconic (If it’s really iconic, you’ll know it.)