Words, phrases, and expressions that should be erased from the lexicon

I'm a wordy person. One time I was at a used bookstore and found a book called The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate. It's a book entirely full of overly flowery and complicated words for dorks like me who enjoy being a walking thesaurus. I was happier than a 13-year-old boy with an unrestricted internet connection and parents on a day trip somewhere far away.

Given my affinity for words and my snobbish approach to deciding which one I feel is best in any particular situation (when I edit people's work, they end up despising me afterward,) I have a lot of opinions on what words are worthy of the utmost hatred.

FML: This is a shortened internet version of the phrase "Fuck my life." This phrase, whether in daily conversation or found in its abbreviated form online, is the anthem of our self-involved society. It is entirely nonsensical. It sounds unimaginably stupid. And your life isn't nearly as terrible as you think it is. A similar phrase that is awful for the same reasons is "fuck me!" What ever happened to good old "goddamnit?"

Hoighty-Toighty: It just sounds like crap.

Mediums: We had a perfectly good plural for this word already. Media. Mediums is now accepted by all sources, but I maintain it's wrong.

The reason why: Putting the why here is totally unnecessary. If you're going to say "Do you know the reason why?" you can carry across the same meaning by saying "Do you know the reason?" It's much more clear.

Due to the fact: Ever want to convince someone that your argument is sophomoric trash? Throw in a "due to the fact that" or two and you'll undermine your credibility in no time. I'm all for canning "due to" altogether and replacing it with "as a result of."

I could care less: No, you couldn't.

ATM Machine: Redundant.

Poughkeepsie: They really need to rename that city. New York is absolutely stuffed with towns that have really stupid-sounding names.

Emo: This word has no meaning. And it's really dumb. Only acceptable to describe a haircut.

There are probably hundreds more words and expressions I can think of that I loathe to the point that I will not say them and will stop reading the work of an author that uses them when I see them, but it's one of those things that needs to be brought out of me. It's hard to just sit here and think of them. More on this later.