Every year on the turn of the calendar, Lake Superior State University's "Unicorn Hunters" take words or phrases nominated through the whole 365 days, and "banishes" them from our language....for overuse, for them being non-words, for any number of reasons as nominated by the public. While I'm not alumni of LSSU and never attended there (my sister did, one of our station engineers did,) I enjoy their list each year as part of my new years' routine! I think what they do brings awareness to the degrading of the English language!
I got so sick of "occupy" in our network news each hour, (used as in "the demonstrations) we, at WION decided to add our voice to that nomination quite a few months ago! Our station is not highlighted as one of the reasons it made it to this year's list, but..... I'm GLAD it made the list. View the list here:
Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: Banished Words List
Then, would you....... if you had the power banish OTHER words or phrases....what would they be?
Let's see YOUR list for fun, right here on this site.......or comments on theirs! And, nominate some for NEXT year! Maybe Satellite Guys can contribute to the Unicorn Hunters' list next year!
I got so sick of "occupy" in our network news each hour, (used as in "the demonstrations) we, at WION decided to add our voice to that nomination quite a few months ago! Our station is not highlighted as one of the reasons it made it to this year's list, but..... I'm GLAD it made the list. View the list here:
Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: Banished Words List
Then, would you....... if you had the power banish OTHER words or phrases....what would they be?
Let's see YOUR list for fun, right here on this site.......or comments on theirs! And, nominate some for NEXT year! Maybe Satellite Guys can contribute to the Unicorn Hunters' list next year!