Each year since 1976, Lake Superior State University has released a list in late December of words that should never be used again based on their overuse in the 12 months prior. This year's list largely revolves around the election and the economic crisis:
Maverick
From Wall Street to Main Street
Desperate search
monkey, when used as a suffix
game-changing
carbon footprint or carbon offsetting
green
bailout
"winner of five nominations."
*3 - It's the first time an emoticon has made the list.
First Dude
icon or iconic
staycation
not so much
it's that time of year again
Leave a comment and let us know what 2008 word you think should be banned forever.
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Leave a comment and let us know what 2008 word you think should be banned forever.
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One of our favourite morning shows (Q107 in Toronto) is sponsored by a hot tub company that used 'staycation' in its ad campaign ALL SUMMER AND FALL.
Joe (anything)
youbetcha
gotcha-journalism
war on christmas.
I can't think of anymore, luckily my memory is horrible to keep this garbaged trapped in my head.
change
giving back (to the community or whomever)
All 3 are way over-used.
Whatever
And on a personal note the one word I would most like to not hear is one I will hear for at least four more years. Obama
<3 First Dude
Then again, a lot of these aren't.
Whenever I see 'I <3 my dog', I read it as 'I teabag my dog'. I hope your dog's not a pitbull, pal.
and adding the "right" onto the end of "I know" popped out of nowhere and is so annoying! (i.e. "I know, RIGHT?")
guy 2: NO YOU FOOL!! ITS EMERALD! EMERALD!!!
"Global Warming"
"Think Global Act Local"
and finally, the most hated suffix I can think of; "Neo-(Anything)"
(However, you may allow Randi to continue to use it -- and a select few others, pending discussion.)
drug czar (drug king)
war czar (war king)
terrorism czar (terrorism king)
cybersecurity czar (cybersecurity king)
climate czar (the person in charge of climate?)
copyright czar (the person in charge of copyrights?)
First off, how many public works projects actually require a shovel, and secondly, if all a project really needs to be implemented is money, just say so dammit!
twilight
Staycation
Meh
Three words that chap my hide.
Change
And "wow" should be banned, if only from my own overuse.
And as for the effect of the olympics - we have new verbs "To medal" "To Podium", as in "He podiumed three times" (yecch) joining other awful verb converts like "dialoguing" and "main-streaming"
http://agitationist.com/101-web-business-cliches-that-must-die-in-2009