Irritating Phrases and Words

Oxford University recently published its list of "top 10 irritating phrases." The most irritating phrase, according to Oxford is "at the end of the day." (Hmmm...I've not heard anyone use that particular phrase around here recently.) You can read the other nine irritating phrases at the following link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html

After reading the above article, I did a Google search for "overused American phrases and words" and got 156,000 results (one of which did include the word "got" on it--so sorry!).

If I were composing an American version of most irritating phrases and overused/abused words, I know that it would look something like this:

1. "you know"
2. "like"
3. "you know what I mean"
4. "there's" (used with plural objects instead of using "there are") Example: "There's a ton of
people who don't realize they mean to say 'there are' at the beginning of such a sentence."
5. "importantly" (used instead of "important")
6. "freakin'" (as in "that was so freakin' fun"--which, I suppose, is better than its obscene
cousin, although I've never figured out how the word became an adjective)
7. "wazzup"
8. "24/7"
9. "omigod"
10. "my bad"

Other irritations, although not words or phrases, are abuses of there/their/they're, similar abuses of your/you're, and overuse of apostrophes (using them with plural words instead of possessives).

Evidently, I'm not the only librarian who gets a bit frustrated with "irritating" words and phrases. View a list of overused words that were "retired" by a group of librarians at Hester Memorial Library at North Greenville University at the following link:
http://media.www.nguskyliner.com/media/storage/paper284/news/2005/04/27/News/Library.Staff.Retires.Overused.Words-938580.shtml