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“Whatever” reaches retirement age

TheĀ  Valley Girl expression Whatever may have run its course. It was trendy in the 80s, along with gnarly and gag me with a spoon. Those locutions faded, but whatever remained.
In a recent poll, however, whatever was rated the single most annoying expression for all geographic areas, income and education levels, races, ages, and genders [...]