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Ah yes, on another forum, I have seen threads as old as six years rise to the top of the list as someone fancies a response is due. They have coined a word for this: "necroposting".

The word that has come to irritate me is "flaunt", primarily because it is the victim of such misuse because of a similar sounding word, as in "The rogues stormed roughly through the square, flaunting courtesy and the law." It has become as grating as "the fact of the matter is", so much so that I have even begun to dislike "flout".