The Banished Words list returns
Randy Sly at The Networking Freelancer posted this year-end note regarding the Banished Words list.
Every year the folks at Lake Superior State University post their famous list of banished words. I always look forward to this list as I want to be sure to watch my writing as well as my networking lingo. Here is the list from LSSU (www.lssu.edu/banished) -
Lake Superior State University “maverick” word-watchers, fresh from the holiday “staycation” but without an economic “bailout” even after a “desperate search,” have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year’s list may be more “green” than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from “Wall Street to Main Street” say they love “not so much” and wish to have erased from their “carbon footprint.”
(Link added to the text.) Randy goes on to list some of those words with some pretty funny quotes afterwords. Definitely worth a read, especially if you’re a blogger and want to avoid using words that make folks cringe.
