Misused, overused and useless words
Friday, January 4th, 2008Every year, Lake Superior State University produces a List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness - well, words that they believe should be banished anyway.
Their list of 2008 includes wordsmith and the verb to author as ones pertinent to what we do, but also includes overused phrases that crop up a lot in sports commentary (particularly in the US) and words such as random and sweet which are used out of their traditional context.
Anyone got any to add? I’ll admit the one on their list that I’d most like to see banished is webinar – a seminar conducted over the web. It’s ugly. Although maybe it should be reduced to binar in the same way that web log became blog?
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