Sunday, August 15, 2010

Introducing Hyperused: a blog about overused words and phrases

Buzzwords, cliches, and trendy language (trendy anything, really), have always annoyed my team and me. As such, we have decided to launch this blog as a vehicle to vent, cope, and maybe, just maybe, contribute something to the world of those who concern themselves with overused words and phrases.

There are plenty of lists of the overused out there on the internet. We love these lists and consult them regularly. What separates our content from most of these lists is the hard data we will compile for each of our entries. Our frequency-of-use data is based upon 20 years of content analysis of major national news publications. We will conduct this content analysis for every piece we post and will publish our raw data for all to see.

Word and grammar nazis we are not... In fact, we're quite certain you'll find plenty of spelling and grammatical errors in these soon to be published pages. We don't really care much about grammar and spelling. But know when something creases us, and overused words and phrases certainly fall into that creased category.

We hope you enjoy! Please feel free to comment and send us any words / phrases you'd like us to analyze.

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