The stuff that, like, hacks you guys off ; Bsolutely. In fact, abso-bloomin'-lootely. Since writing a column last Saturday on annoying words and phrases I have been absolutely inundated with letters and e-mails from WMN readers who are absolutely - and I mean absolutely - hacked off (to coin a phrase many of you don't like) with the overuse and wrong use of words like... well, like "absolutely".

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Publication: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)

Date: 2009-01-17 00:00:00

Bsolutely. In fact, abso-bloomin'-lootely. Since writing a column last Saturday on annoying words and phrases I have been absolutely inundated with letters and e-mails from WMN readers who are absolutely - and I mean absolutely - hacked off (to coin a phrase many of you don't like) with the overuse and wrong use of words like... well, like "absolutely".

"Listening to the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning, it must have been said at least 10 times in 10 minutes," wails Rosemary Tobin, of Newbridge, near Penzance.

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