`Surge' makes the banned-words list
DETROIT - Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year's resolutions rather than write one. And don't utter, "It is what it is" when you fail to meet your first goal.
Those are two of the 19 words or phrases that appear in Lake Superior State University's annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. The school in Michigan's Upper Peninsula released its 33rd list Monday, selecting from about 2,000 nominations.
Lake Superior State University's 2008 list of banished words or phrases:
perfect storm
Webinar
waterboarding
organic
wordsmith/wordsmithing
author/authored
post 9/11
surge
give back
`blank' is the new `blank'
Black Friday
back in the day
random
sweet
decimate
emotional
pop
It is what it is
under the bus



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