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Would you like to impress your boss or blog better? Unless you aim to do just that---irritate---then avoid the following phrases that researchers at the Oxford University found to be most irritating:

1. At the end of the day
2. Fairly unique
3. I personally
4. At this moment in time
5. With all due respect
6. Absolutely
7. It's a nightmare
8. Shouldn't of
9. 24/7
10. It's not rocket science

Post US elections 2008, I like to see the following added to the top 100 list:

• we are mavericks
• white hard-working Americans
• this great country of ours
• you betcha
• godunnit
• my friends
• there you go again, Joe
• Joe the plumber
• pit bulls
• fair and balanced

You are all invited to add your own list.