Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words

[cassiesmom]

I cringe when I hear the past tense of "impact" used as a verb. The only use for this word should be in relation to wisdom teeth!

"Free gift with purchase" ... It's either free with your purchase, or it is a gift. Why must it be both?

I think it is funny/strange that the "word" truthiness appears both on this list and on Merriam Webster's list of top words of 2006. I'm not a huge Stephen Colbert fan, though.

[wolflady]

Wow, I definitely agreed with most of those.

I've always been annoyed with how non-words (pwn anyone?) get created and worse yet...actually get added to the dictionary...like Functionality. WTF? There is no such thing as functionality. This has always bugged me. A product has a funtion, or it can function in a certain way...but functionality? *grimaces*
Purposely mis-pronounced words bug me also. It's almost like something becomes a fad and then it's just everywhere and later...commonplace. Like often. How do you pronounce often? Ideally, it should rhyme with coffin. Where did this "t" come from all of a sudden (Ok, well not all of a sudden, since it's been going on for some time now)? It was like one day, everyone started saying ofTIN, and then it caught on and now everyone says it that way. I actually hear often less than I hear ofTIN nowadays. Ugh! Then, why isn't it sofTIN?

I ofTIN sofTIN my clothes. Maybe I could start a new fad here?

ha ha ha

It also bugs me when people say greezy (greasy). *shudders*