I'm bored with it - not of it!

There was a story in Metro this morning that appealed to my inner pedant and gave me and fellow PR and friend Laura a good chuckle on the train. I stand firmly alongside John Humphreys when he complains about tautology saying it is the 'the linguistic equivalent of having chips with rice'. Brilliant.

As a PR bad grammar and the misuse of words is something that just shouldn't happen and fellow PR Steve Earl and journalist Sally Whittle are just two people who agree and blog about this topic regularly.

And so inspired here are a couple of my all time bugbear phrases that this article overlooked:

1. Blatantly obvious

2. To be fair

3. Bored of (trust me, it is with. A big thanks to my friend Barney for drilling that one into me and all my friends!)

4. At the end of the day (yes it's in the article but is just THAT annoying)

5. No word of a lie (thanks Claire!)

6. Oh yes, and any unnecessary acronym, like ITCEC

So, if you use any or all of the above - stop it.

That is all.