Yes, it's banned words time again. An Upper Peninsula school Wednesday issued a semi-serious list of annoying, hokey, corny language, continuing a tradition that former campus PR director Bill Rabe started on Jan. 1, 1976.
This cartoon by Adam Raffaele of Lake Superior State is posted with its.new list.
Lake SuperiorState University targets pet peeves from everyday speech, as well as from the news, fields of education, technology, advertising, politics and more. A committee makes a final cut in late December.'This year's 40th annual list is culled from nominations received mostly through the university's website," an online announcement says.
Here’s a look at some of what was bugging word-watchers over the past year.
Derided selections include polar vortex, hack, skill set, foodie, takeaway and cra-cra [or cray-cray] for crazy.
The university also wants to say farewell to "enhanced interrogation," as David Bristol of Byron Center, Mich., suggested. He calls it "a shameful euphemism for torture.”
Several nominations result in the listing of "-Nation," derided as "a suffering sports suffix."
“Although a devout Wisconsin sports fan, I do not belong to Packer-Nation, Badger-Nation, Phoenix-Nation, or Brewer-Nation.” – Kelly Frawley, Waunakee, Wis.
See the full rundown., in all senses of that word, at our Read More link below.
-- Alan Stamm
