Any item with -ables in it: Uncrustables, freshables, I know there are more but I've blacked them out of my mind.

My husband just told me about an advertisement for an Asian snack he was reading about on the Outhouse, called Inca Chips. The advertisement called them "Ethnican" flavored. Hoo boy.

misunderestimated

nucular

"irregardless"

Some expression that I first noticed when the Windsors were getting divorced. Princess Diana was being described as a "self-confessed adultress."

"Self-confessed"? Who else could confess one's misdeeds but oneself?

(misuse of) Begs the Question
Supposably
Should of - Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ebonics - but I remind myself that language serves people not vice versa
Could care less

Learnings.

"As in, the learnings we took away from the seminar"

Sometimes I ask the speaklings if they also enjoyified the eatings, drivings, and discussings, and I'm met usually met with a blank starings or insultings.

Also, monies.

"Most unique" - No. 1 with a BULLET

Misuse/overuse of the adjective "awesome" to describe anything mildly pleasing, or to indicate agreement ("I'll be over at 4." "Awesome!")

"Reached out to" instead of "called" or "emailed"

"Bad boys" as a unit of measurement ("I could eat a couple of those bad boys")

Any portmanteau of celebrity names ("Brangelina," "Bennifer," etc.)

Not the same thing, but why oh WHY don't newscasters care about setting a good example with proper grammar, etc?

Two main problems: Failing to use the word "evacuate" properly (it means TO EMPTY, not to leave) and "lie" instead of "lay."

Not to mention "hopefully." I can't remember the last time ANYONE used that word properly, e.g. "he waited hopefully for an answer."

Even if a handful of viewers were to laugh at newscasters for using the English language properly, they'd get over it in no time. Using bad grammar is NOT the way to get higher ratings than your competition!

Oh, and here's what Fran Lebowitz once wrote:

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word 'collectible' as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”

(Her parents ran a furniture store. Don't know if it was the type of furniture that would be called "collectible' by some people today.)

Consider:

"When I heard the news, my head literally exploded."

Kevin, I'll second you on that use of the word "awesome."

I remember when it first started - it was like fingernails on a chalkboard for me - so, I told a friend what I thought:

"The Himalayas are awesome. Putting a man on the moon and bringing him back again was awesome." Finding a cure for cancer would be awesome. But, this pizza is "awesome"? That just doesn't cut it for me."

P.S., Amy, I had to look up the word "listicle" - Thanks, now that I know the word, it is as annoying as the practice that some news sites do by spreading their list over several pages so that one has to click through the list. I guess they don't realize (or don't care) that many of us don't click beyond the first item on the list.

Now 'amazing' is being used in place of awesome. I'm really starting to hate that too.

I'll give my left testicle to get rid of "listicle". ;-)

Augmenting anything with 'balls' or 'sauce' i.e. amazeballs and awesomesauce.

The proof is in the pudding.

"Hashtag ____" bleeding from Twitter into speech.

The misuse of weary in place of leery or wary.

Unnecessarily adding "go ahead and" to everything.
"I'm going to go ahead and order dessert." instead of simply "I am going to order dessert."

Big girl panties.

Yanno instead of you know.

Imma instead of I'm going to

Utilize when just plain 'use' would do.

"Wow" as a verb.

To clarify:

Yanno and Imma in writing

Nom Nom Nom to signify eating

I second that.

Literally makes me "literally" want to push someone off a bridge.

Also:

Chillax -ARRRRRRRRRGH!
Chill
Sick
Weak
Random -Double AAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!

These are currently being used by our youth, and drive me bat-shit.

The ones that make me want to punch someone are Dude, which used to denote a pimple on the rear end of horse, so I only use them when speaking to someone I dislike - and Bra, when speaking to someone you admire. I'm sorry, when did your friend/acquaintance become equivalent to support hosiery?

YOLO
Amazeballs
Broseph

Bromance and mancrush could start to get irritating after a while . . .