Tag: New Year's

Read Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty’s forty-fourth List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse and Gen­er­al Uselessness.

Read Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty’s List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse, and Gen­er­al Use­less­ness for 2018, plus NPI’s addi­tions. This year, we’re ban­ish­ing “Alter­na­tive Facts”, “Thoughts and Prayers”, “Zero Sum Game”, “Hive Mind”, “Woke”, and “Not/Shouldn’t Be a Par­ti­san Issue”. 

Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty has released a thought­ful and humor­ous “List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse and Gen­er­al Use­less­ness”. Here is the 2017 (and forty-sec­ond annu­al) edi­tion, for your read­ing enjoy­ment on this New Year’s Eve: YOU, SIR — Hails from a more civ­i­lized era […]

Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty has released a thought­ful and humor­ous “List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse and Gen­er­al Use­less­ness”. Here is the 2016 (and forty-first annu­al) edi­tion, for your read­ing enjoy­ment on this New Year’s Eve: SO — So the word that received the most […]