Reports Reuters:

For the second consecutive year “whatever’ topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language. Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by “like” with 28 percent and the phrase “you know what I mean’ at 15 percent.

“Hater” did not make the list.

Tagged as: Like, Marist Poll, Most Annoying Word 2010, Vocabulary, Whatever