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Banished Words List: Each new year brings another installment of the school's "List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness". It has been published since New Year's Day 1976 and receives significant media coverage.
The judges of a Michigan university's cheeky annual “Banished Words List" have a message for texting and tweeting Americans: Your “wait, what?” joke is lame. The phrase topped Lake Superior ...
The post 10 Words and Phrases That Should Be Banished in 2022 appeared first on Reader's Digest. Here's why these words and phrases made Lake Superior State University's annual banished list.
The company published a list of the most mispronounced words of the year in the United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday, including foreign words that have entered the English lexicon for ...
NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. [1] It is based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play.
Because of its prolific use and (worldwide) public profile during this period, the American Dialect Society voted "weapons of mass destruction" (and its abbreviation, "WMD") the word of the year in 2002, [24] and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for "Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness" (and ...
The votes are in. Last month, on Nov. 14, Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its favorite. Language experts from the publishing ...
Steve Laffey, 2024 candidate for president, Mayor of Cranston, RI (2003–2007) [207] Jennifer McCormick, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction (2017–2021), 2024 candidate for governor (Republican until 2021) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [208] Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner (2003–2015) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [209]