So, for the 41st year in a row, Lake Superior State University (LSSU) issued a presser with a list of problematic words that should banned by every stakeholder. Their secret sauce in generating the list? The price point is good, everyone can join the conversation, and they never walk it back if someone complains about a word breaking the internet.
In what’s become a tradition, I’m blogging about LSSU’s annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness”. I suppose you could say the list has been giving me life.
2016’s winners losers banished words are as follows:
- So
- Conversation
- Problematic
- Stakeholder
- Price Point
- Secret Sauce
- Break The Internet
- Walk It Back
- Presser
- Manspreading
- Vape
- Giving Me Life
- Physicality
This year the word ‘so’ received two honors. It was the word that received the most nominations for being banished. It was also the first time a word from a previous year has appeared on the list again. In 1999, it was banished as a way of providing emphasis, as in “I am SO down with this list!”
If you enjoyed this post, please amplify it on social media. Maybe we’ll break the internet.
They need to add ENABLE
That’s a good suggestion. You can see the full list of words that have been banished over the years, check here: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/complete_list.php
Not the usual suspects I was anticipating!