For the eighth year in a row, it appears that those polled, and those who cared enough to answer, agreed: Whatever is the most annoying word. Ever. In a telephone survey of more than 1,000 adult ...

Americans have voted "whatever" as the most annoying word or phrase to be used in casual conversation for the ninth year in a row. Results showed that a third of respondents from the annual Marist ...

I told my son that if he didn't read more, he would be sorry when he reached college next year. As a typical video box generation kid, he looked at me and said: "Whatever." There it was-- the "W" word ...

This ultimate statement of apathy - popularized by Kurt Cobain in the lyrics of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - has been identified by Americans as the most irritating word in the English language.