Lake Superior State University has chosen the ten words it found were most 'misused, overused, and useless' in 2022 and forbidden people from using them at all for the next 12 months.
Words and terms banned in 2022 included"no worries","you're on mute," and"wait, what?"Others over the years have included"vis-a-vis","information superhighway","I'm like," and, for a nation some might say not as 'skilled' at football punditry as the UK, bizarrely also outlawed was"giving 110 percent".
Perhaps less surprising in 1983, one of the forbidden words was"Reaganomics" - the much overused term at the time, for the economic policies promoted by US President Ronald Reagan.Also predictable, was the ban on"Y2K" in 1999, followed hot-on-the-heels by"millennium" in 2000. And almost certainly to the relief of one William Jefferson Clinton, in 1999"Monica Lewinsky" was added to the don't-say list.
The university has even copyrighted the concept of its Banished Words List to"uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical-and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating".
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