Saturday 5th January 2008
Following up on my post about misused, overused and useless words the other day, I spotted an article on the BBC just now about the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year list (for 2007, obviously) - they chart words and phrases that become dominant in a particular year.
The word for 2007 is subprime, as [...]
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Friday 4th January 2008
Every 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 [...]
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