Pollsters at Marist College asked 938 U.S. adults what popular words or phrases they thought were especially irritating via phone, and ‘whatever’ managed to beat ‘you know,’ which a quarter of the respondents despised.

The other irritating nominees were ‘anyway’ (at 7 percent), ‘it is what it is’ (11 percent), and ‘at the end of the day’ (at 2 percent).

The study found that ‘whatever’ was disliked across the board, regardless of each participant’s race, age, gender and income.

"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably," Michael Adams, author of Slang: The People’s Poetry, stated. "It's a word that - and it depends how a speaker uses it - can suggest dismissiveness."

All we can say is, whatever! (FOXNews.com)

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