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List of Banished Words Released for 2009
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:33 PM EDT
Article Source: firstcoastnews.comadvertisement
They're the words we used incorrectly, too often and sometimes for no good reason. Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of the 15 most misused, overused or generally useless words.
The words are submitted by the public and the school's faculty narrows the list to the fifteen most notorious. This year, a symbol made the cut.
LSSU has looked back at the previous year, on New Year's Day since 1975.
Here's the list for 2009.
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Lately I have heard the word iconic so much that I was getting tired of hearing it. So I thought maybe others are too. I went in search for recent overused words and there it was: iconic.
The article I found also suggests other words and phases that have been used a bit too much or incorrectly such as: bailout, green, and the phrase 'not so much'.
Is there a word or phase that every time you hear it you want to scream?
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