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Last updated: 8 october, 2009 - 14:17 GMT
'Whatever' is 'most annoying word'
Nearly half of Americans surveyed for a new poll said that "whatever" was the most annoying word that could be used in conversation.
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The poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion received votes for "you know" and "anyway," but they were not even close to the 47% that "whatever" achieved.
Caroline Kennedy, the author and attorney - and daughter of former US president, John F Kennedy - tends to sprinkle her sentences with a a few too many "you knows".
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While, in Britain, the phrase "at the end of the day" is reaching epidemic proportions.
Anthea Bisgrove was a member of the Queen's English Society.
She is a mother of two and even though she used to be an English teacher, she admits she occasionally uses such verbal fillers with her own children.
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First broadcast 8 October 2009
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