My list is here.
Mentioned on:
- Annoying and pretentious terms (Althouse blog)
- Adjectivey, Alliterations, Britishisms, and Loving (Karen De Coster’s blog)
- Stephan Kinsella’s rulings on term coolness (metafilter)
From Althouse:
Annoying and pretentious terms
Collected by N. Stephan Kinsella (via Metafilter). The list is excellent — reminds me of one of my all-time favorite books: Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas.” The list is also pretty long, so let me select a few that especially annoy me …
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