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Couldn’t agree more it’s dreadful. Absolutely no need for it whatsoever.

I dislike the over use of like and basically “ so basically I like got into the car”

Also dislike the “ I’m not gonna lie” when used before a statement , I assume that you are not going to lie when you tell me something.

Theexwife yes like basically it's a filler word isn't it

I saw an episode of Judge Judy last week where she asked a chap (late teens) to construct a sentence without using like.
Everytime he began, he had to stop speaking after two words and in the end, very frustrated, he gave up trying!

Many people irritated by people who start a sentence with so

It’s dreadful. They sound so inarticulate.

As well as interjecting 'like' I find 'kind of' extremely annoying too

“Can I get” instead of “Please May I have”
really irritates me 😠

I too hate ' can I get' and TV chefs who say ' what you want to do is ..... ' rather than ' what you need to do '

This really should be driven out at school. Not heard in younger children? Seems to come in the sloppy teenage years - via television programmes?. Dreadful in the recounting of something that happened, 'And I was like omg, and he was like...'

I was having a nice conversation with a teenage girl when her friend joined us .
They went straight into newspeak .
I tried to make an appointment with the surgery from hell and the receptionist told me that she'd thrown me " into the mix ".
I hate OMG .
On the shopping channels : the presenters are fond of saying " you've got the navy ".
No I haven't got the navy , the pink or the green , because I haven't bought the item .
The other much used word is iconic .

I hate the ubiquitous WOW

It drives me mad too and so to ask that question! “ like a car or a car”

It really irks me when random complete strangers - shop assistant, bus driver, air steward, medic, for example - say "see you later"when your paths will never cross again.

Sorry to sound nasty, but I also dislike starting a sentence with the word ‘so’ as the OP has done.

I really dislike ‘lol’. Every time I see it (which is only on GN) I want to scream.

Mel1967

“Can I get” instead of “Please May I have”
really irritates me 😠

When I was young and said “can I have… please”, my mother and Grampa both used to reply “yes you can, but you may not” drove me nuts, but I then used it with my own children!! I also hate So (sorry OP) at the beginning of sentences! My (not so) DSiL does this constantly!

Cossy

Mel1967

“Can I get” instead of “Please May I have”
really irritates me 😠

When I was young and said “can I have… please”, my mother and Grampa both used to reply “yes you can, but you may not” drove me nuts, but I then used it with my own children!! I also hate So (sorry OP) at the beginning of sentences! My (not so) DSiL does this constantly!

Gosh yes! My senior school English teacher always corrected us on this. '

'Can I go to the toilet please?'

'Yes, I am sure you can, but no, you may not'

The one I don't like is, "To be honest," before a statement. It makes me wonder, "What have you been all of the other times you spoke?"

How about “with all due respect”, before some rude systems, which is anything but respectful!

How about “literally”, when it’s not? “I literally died”. You obviously didn’t. “As I said”, when it’s the first time it’s been mentioned. “He turned round and said …….., so I turned round and said ……..” always reminds me of the little wooden people on those very old mechanical clocks, popping out and spinning round then gliding back in.

"Like" irritates me, too. Also, why is everything "awesome"??or "super" - eg. Super excited, super tired, super expensive??