i'm following the football/soccer on the bbc text service.....
1900: Noughties. Most annoying word-which-isn't-even-a-word ever?
From Doug, Leyland, via text: "Re 1900: Surely the most annoying non-real word has to be "lol". I teach teenagers and they use it so much that I think eventually it'll replace the full stop in the English language. Sigh."
From Joe via text: "Re 1931: My mother thought 'lol' meant lots of love and put it at the end of a text offering her condolences at the death of a relative."