BBC News: 20 of your most hated clichés. The first ten are:
- Basically
- To be fair
- To be honest
- Going forward
- The fact of the matter is
- Let’s face it
- Touch base
- 110%
- In the pipeline
- The reason being
These are fairly heinous. My personal bugbear is "irregardless" because it’s NOT A WORD. Then there’s conversational fillers "like" and "you know". I don’t know, and I don’t like, please get a vocabulary.
How about “more/most” unique?
“The plane will leave momentarily.”
“Either of the three options is acceptable.”
“The smaller half…”
I also get annoyed by people who don’t know the difference between less and fewer.
On non-existent words, when I was working in a nursing home, there was a sign exhorting us to remember to use the cleaning product with “antibacterialcidally action.”