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Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases
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2012/07/02 - 10:26am
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flashart said:

I would certainly have thought "it's a matter of fact…" would be up there.

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2012/07/02 - 10:28am
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"I personally" is used frequently by Armenian undergraduate students when writing an essay.  

And sorry for editing the message above. I had written mine there by mistake and had to cut it off.  

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2014/09/14 - 2:37pm
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I listen to National Public Radio programs frequently, and at the end of most interviews almost every guest says, "Thanks for having me."  I understand what is meant by the phrase, but "to have" someone has more than one meaning.  Why not just say, "Thanks for inviting me"?

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2014/09/14 - 6:53pm
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Host: Thank you for letting us have you on the show today.

Guest: Oh,no, it was an honor to have been had.

Supposedly it happened on the Bob Braun TV show on the WLW family of stations in the late 1960s,

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