The grammatically incorrect term “shoudn’t of” has been voted the most irritating phrase heard by Kent people.

In our online poll you have slammed the cumbersome version of “shouldn’t have” by putting it top of a list of most annoying phrases.

It received more than a quarter of the overall votes, closely followed by “at the end of the day” which received 22.5 per cent.

“At the end of the day” came top of the original list of phrases put together by researchers looking at the Oxford University Corpus database.

The Corpus alerts them to new words and phrases and can tell them which expressions are disappearing. It also shows how words are being misused.

On our comments section Paul, from Ashford, said: “You missed one out. My number one is basically.

“Anyone who keeps saying basically is basically devoid of any grey matter.”

Clive, from Maidstone, said: “One phrase that annoys me is train station.

“When did railway stations become train stations?”

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