Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Banished Words
The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University are giving back to English speakers everywhere with their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
On Dec. 31, 1975, former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and his colleagues cooked up an idea to banish overused words and phrases and issue a list on New Year’s Day. Much to the delight of language enthusiasts everywhere, the list has stayed the course into a fourth decade.
This year’s list derives from more than 2,000 nominations received through the university’s website, www.lssu.edu/banished. Word-watchers target pet peeves from everyday speech, as well as from the news, education, technology, advertising, politics, sports and more. A committee makes a final cut in late December. The list is released on New Year’s Day.
- Perfect storm
- Webinar
- Waterboarding
- Organic
- Wordsmith/Wordsmithing
- Author/Authored
- Post 9/11
- Surge
- Give Back
- ‘BLANK’ is the new ‘BLANK’ or ‘X’ is the new ‘Y’
- Black Friday
- Back in the day
- Random
- Sweet
- Decimate
- Emotional
- Pop
- It is what it is
- Under the bus
Source: Lake Superior State University
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