wordy go go
This morning's All things considered program featured the Lake Superior State University 2012 list of words and phrases to be banished from English due to "overuse, misuse and general uselessness" (or is that Jerri Blank's description of her life on the streets?).
Here is a list of words and phrases that have been causing hornet rose here to tut, rick her neck or fume when eavesdropping, listening to the wireless or watching the television.
period of time
back-story
literally
contagion
at the end of the day
it is what it is
awesome (or perhaps that is now extinct, well, only used by French nationals during facebook frenzy updates. Here's hoping).
hopefully
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3 comments:
Don't ban words for misuse, jut don't misuse them. 'Hopefully' is a shocker though (I probably use it all the time) and then there's 'Interestingly'.
such a gas-gas!
Reta has the right idea
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