To want to ban the use of certain words

And any one of the thousands who finish their sentence with an upward inflection. Grrr. It's not a question!

On trend,in branch, (refering to banks)

"and yeah" used in conversation at the end of a dialogue. Makes me want to scream "and yeah WHAT"

Let's touch base.

This is morphing into pedants' corner !

"Bear me a moment"
(arrggghh!!!)

Oh rosequaetz. I so agree about resting on a bed of! I think restaurants are doing that a bit less often now but it has always irked me.

Why do words that used to end in 'ism' now end in 'ality?'

Professionalism is now professionality

Oh at last! Another hater of "at this moment in time"! You've made my day!

Learning curve
I've been on one of those since I joined GN 2old4hotpants

"resting on a bed of creamed spinach"
A bed of spinach is usually in the garden firmly rooted in soil

And what's more, phoenix, it does rather imply that whatever is 'resting' is not actually dead.

what's the emoticon for giggle?
rofl

Please may I add the horror which has me shouting at the tv/radio at the moment - "Here are the headlines this hour ....." (or similar). "This hour"?????? No, no, no.

But at least it's resting on a bed

indeed, Ana

And what's more, phoenix, it does rather imply that whatever is 'resting' is not actually dead...

"Resting" when used on menus, for example "resting on a bed of creamed spinach"

I don't want to eat tired food!

Pan fried! What else do people fry in?

It's presumably just to make frying acceptable again in the same way as Kentucky FRIED Chicken is now KFC.

'I have to say'. Why do you have to say? Why not just say it?

The massive sales near us are like that NfkDumpling. There's nothing massive about size 8 or 10. My DH complained that massive sales were always small sizes until he lost weight. Suddenly, the sale sizes were all the size he was previously.?

'Hard working families', used in every other sentence by all too many politicians. Can't they think of another cliché to invent?

Pre-order.
Surely it's just order?

I hate 'those ones'. (When the word those will do on its own). also the fashion of changing nouns into adjectives by adding 'ing' as with 'concerning' meaning 'cause for concern' (as opposed to 'about'). EG. His actions were very concerning, instead of His actions were a cause for concern, or His actions were disconcerting.

Well, 2old some of them do have nannies!

Daddima I well remember our English teacher making us rewrite sentences to avoid the use of 'get'. It still irritates me when I hear the almost ubiquitous 'can I get'.

'Blue sky thinking', and all the rest of corporate speech. Used to play b#llsh#t bingo at office meetings and crossed off each of the nonsense phrases as they were spouted.