"How not to talk like an arse" ~ Richard Wilson

I was ranting to someone earlier about how the word "Trending" is absolutely dreadful, and then I remembered a book I received for Christmas. It's called "How not to talk like an arse" and it lists 101 words/phrases that you shouldn't be saying due to how awful they sound (apparently). I looked through the list of contents to find each word and I then read about 2/3 of the way through the book and forgot about it, but I do remember that it was a pretty good book and I agreed with most of the words mentioned in there.

Here are the 101 words/phrases (if you'd like to see them):

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1. Trending
2. OMG!
3. Chillax
4. Heads-Up
5. Good To Go
6. Hurting
7. Impact
8. Fess Up
9. Learnings
10. Action/Task
11. Leverage
12. Parent
13. Going Forward
14. Forever Home
15. Skill Set
16. Step Up To The Plate
17. Second-Phase Ball
18. Can I Get ...?
19. How Good Is He?
20. I'm Good
21. Rock Up
22. Swing By
23. Fashion Forward
24. Uber (with the umlaut)
25. On Trend
26. Judgement Call
27. Team GB
28. Jedward (lol)
29. Back In The Day
30. Me Time
31. Anything Kathy Lette Says (Australian author)
32. Frenemy
33. Inappropriate
34. Issues
35. Goddess
36. Any Time Soon
37. National Treasure
38. Season
39. Hold Your Hands Up
40. Smashed It
41. Go-To Guy
42. My Bad
43. No-Brainer
44. Cool/wicked
45. Shop/Store
46. Listen Up, People!
47. You Know what?
48. Head-To-Head
49. Don't Even Go There
50. Pecs, Abs, Glutes, etc.
51. My Inner ...
52. To Podium/Medal
53. Fail!
54. Kick Back
55. Reach Out
56. From The Get-Go
57. Happy Bunny
58. That's How I Roll
59. Just Be
60. Close Of Play
61. Girl Crush
62. Like
63. Do The Math
64. You Rock
65. Don't we, Girls?
66. Must-Have
67. Chick Lit
68. Big Beast
69. Alpha Male
70. Intern
71. Carbs
72. Risk-Averse
73. Yummy Mummy
74. Rocking that look/working that look
75. Comfort Zone
76. Take-Out/To Go
77. To Die For
78. I'm Loving It
79. 24/7
80. Shout-Out
81. Go Figure
82. Cash Rich, Time Poor
83. Genius/Legend
84. Quality Time
85. Space
86. Madge
87. Just Got
88. Park
89. Fauxmance
90. Bromance (My God this word really drives me insane <)
91. BFF
92. Staycation
93. Fit For Purpose
94. Best Practice
95. Vagazzle
96. LOL
97. Bandwidth
98. Deliverables
99. ...

100. Literally

101. End Of

I use number 79. quite a lot, 96. an awful lot (I knew it'd be on there tbh) and number 2. a fair bit :L

Number 3, 91 and 90 drive me absolutely crazy lmao :l Oh and so does number 1 of course. They're just such horrific words.