“Breaking News”: 2005’s Most Annoying Words and Phrases

For the last 30 years, Lake Superior State University has been compiling a list of the year’s most overused and annoying words.

This year’s list, viewable at this link, includes “persons of interest”, “surreal”, “hunker down”, “FEMA”, “holiday tree”, “breaking news” and several others.

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