Banished words

By stealth •

Lake Superior State University's 2008 list of banished words or phrases:

• perfect storm

• Webinar

• waterboarding

• organic

• wordsmith/wordsmithing

• author/authored

• post 9/11

• surge

• give back

• `blank' is the new `blank'

• Black Friday

• back in the day

• random

• sweet

• decimate

• emotional

• pop

• It is what it is

• under the bus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071231/ap_on_re_us/banned_words_list;_ylt=A...

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By stealth• 1 Jan 2008 16:24

ask the americans around here. looks funny

By psychedella2001• 1 Jan 2008 16:21

why is this so?

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