Lake Superior State University are again featured in my blog.
Every year since 1976, the Michigan-based varsity have their compilation of choices that are to be banned for the entire incoming year. [Refer their last year’s list as published in my blog “Banished Words 2022” on January 04, 2022].
More than 1,000 everyday terms have made it on to the roll of shame – some more than once.
And this year, sees GOAT (the acronym for Greatest Of All Time), top the poll.
The other banished words are:
- Inflection point
- Gaslighting
- Quiet quitting
- Moving forward
- Amazing
- Absolutely
- Does that make sense?
- Irregardless
- It is what it is
For their 2023 list, Lake Superior State University judges reviewed more than 1,500 submissions before coming up with their top ten.
A university spokesperson said, of the number one nominee, GOAT: "The many nominators didn't have to be physicists or grammarians to determine the literal impossibility and technical vagueness of this wannabe superlative. Yet it's bestowed on everyone from Olympic gold medallists to Jeopardy champions".
The university have even copyrighted the concept of their Banished Words List to "uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical-and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating".
Enough said.
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