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No Worries: At the End of the Day, One Week Remains to Submit Words and Terms to Banish for 2023 to 海角社区

Nov 23, 2022

鈥淣o worries鈥� ranked second in 海角社区鈥檚 annual tongue-in-cheek Banished Words List for misuse, overuse, and uselessness of communication for 2022. 鈥淎t the end of the day鈥� came in third. The most popular phrasing people nationwide and worldwide loved to hate: 鈥淲ait, what?鈥�

That being said (No. 4), one week remains for a new normal (No. 8) for the supply chain (No. 10) of the English vocabulary. Submit nominations for the Banished Words List for 2023 by 8 AM Eastern Standard Time on Nov. 30, 2022, at lssu.edu/banishedwords.

LSSU will circle back (No. 6) on the deep dive (No. 7) and announce results on Dec. 31, 2022, to start the New Year on the right foot, er, tongue.

Lake State has compiled its yearly mock-serious Banished Words List since 1976 to uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are hackneyed, redundant, oxymoronic, clich茅d, illogical, nonsensical鈥攁nd otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating.

Conversational-based words and terms dominated the 1,250-plus submissions last year, with more than 1,000 about the colloquial and seven of them making the (in)famous reject pile of ten. Judges also selected to disallow three examples related to COVID-19 terminology.

Over the decades, LSSU has received tens of thousands of nominations for the list, which now totals more than 1,000 entries. Examples of the winners (or should that be losers?) to make the yearly compilation: 鈥渄etente,鈥� 鈥渟urely,鈥� 鈥渃lassic,鈥� and 鈥渂romance,鈥� plus 鈥渨rap my head around,鈥� 鈥渦ser friendly,鈥� 鈥渁t this point in time,鈥� and 鈥渧iable alternative.鈥� The Banished Words List has become such a cultural phenomenon that comedian George Carlin submitted an entry that made the annals in 1994: 鈥渂addaboom, baddabing.鈥�