'Whatever' so totally tops poll about most annoying word

[JonLP24]

So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations.

The popular slacker term of indifference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.

"Whatever" easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7 percent), "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of the day" (2 percent).

"Whatever" - pronounced "WHAT'-ehv-errr" when exasperated - is an expression with staying power. Immortalized in song by Nirvana ("oh well, whatever, nevermind") in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in "Clueless" later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people.

It can be an all-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can really be annoying. The poll found "whatever" to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/10/07/20091007whatever-ON.html

[Orsino]

1. The word is unfairly maligned...

...simply because it's used by the most annoying people in the country.

The accent, by the way, falls on the second syllable when used as a dismissal.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. whatever.

:yoiks:

[brendan120678]

3. "It is what it is".....

I absolutely hate that phrase.

[BuelahWitch]

4. So do I

"At the end of the day" is one of my peeves as well.