As always, Lake Superior State University has impeccable sensibilities with banishing words.
"Gifted," "Incentivize," and "Reach Out" are particularly worthy of banishment for 2026, in my opinion.

https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishedwords/

#lssu #english #grammar

Some words should never be forgotten. Some words should be banished, or at least suffer a moratorium, due to misuse, overuse, and general uselessness. I appreciate both Malcolm Guite’s and Lake Superior State University’s sensitivity to appropriate word-forgetting and salvation from word-forgetting.

Appreciate LSSU’s 2025 Banished Words List: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishedwords/

Appreciate Guite’s Lament for Oxford Junior Dictionary’s deletions: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/a-lament-for-lost-words/

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😂 “Not everything is amazing; and when you think about it, very little is”..... "Sleuth confession: 'It makes my hair hurt.' ”

I always look forward to this annual publication. Their explanations never fail to make me smile--and often clap & cheer. If you need random entertainment today, go read. And/or pull up the archives from past years. 😂

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https://www.lssu.edu/traditions/banishedwords/

Amazing: Lake Superior State University announces list of words, phrases that should be banished in 2023. #LSSU

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/01/01/lake-superior-state-university-announces-list-of-words-phrases-that-should-be-banished-in-2023/