List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English

Annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness is Lake Superior State University’s yearly 15 Minutes of Fame. It’s that time of year again. For one or two days a year their servers are slammed and everyone smiles with guilt as they see phrases they have used more than once themselves. Well, maybe.

As a blogger I like this kind of silliness when I am on a desperate search for something to blog about. This year the list seems a bit weak, with a couple of terms that I haven’t yet heard enough to want banished. Maybe the good folks at Lake Superior State University should take a staycation and relax a little bit more. Let’s face it, these phrases are not going to be game changers. But then, they are green words that be used over and over and thus have a small carbon footprint. Ok, not so much.

I guess I need to get out more as I don’t recall seeing First Dude or <3. It seems easy enough to submit a word for banishment, but I can’t think of anything at the moment.

This year’s list of banished words-

• “GREEN”

• CARBON FOOTPRINT

• CARBON OFFSETTING

• MAVERICK

• FIRST DUDE

• BAILOUT

• WALL STREET/MAIN STREET

• MONKEY

• <3

• ICON or ICONIC

• GAME CHANGER

• STAYCATION

• DESPERATE SEARCH

• NOT SO MUCH

• WINNER OF FIVE NOMINATIONS

• IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

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