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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.
Lake Superior State University has unveiled its annual Banished Words List for 2022.
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 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 ...
"OK boomer" was one of the top five words for the year 2019 as selected by readers of a blog published on PublicAddress.net. [38] It was nominated for a similar designation by a university in Switzerland, landing in second place. [39] The phrase is on Lake Superior State University's 45th annual Banished Words List. [40]
Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725). In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth' [1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.
The Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram [5]; Greater Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram [2]; Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram [2]; Greater Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram [2]; The Star Ruby, a version of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram that was modified by Aleister Crowley for the use of adherents to Thelema.
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 ...