‘Whatever’ voted most irritating word, like

WHATEVER you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it’s actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

For the second consecutive year ‘whatever’ topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language.

Nearly 39% of 1,020 Americans questioned deemed it the most irritating word, followed by ‘like’ with 28% and the phrase ‘you know what I mean’ at 15%.