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Lake Superior State University released its 2012 List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. A few examples were "man cave," "thank you in advance," and "occupy," and "viral." Not sure if the last one was supposed to be "gone viral."

However, the number one banished word receiving over 1500 nominations, was none other than "Amazing."

Now, how are physicians going to get through the day without saying viral and amazing?

I remember last year the phrase, "At the end of the day," was pretty far up there. Now, when I hear it, I cringe.

2012's words are here. http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

The entire list (which for some reason amazingly does not have the word on it) is found here:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/complete_list.php

There you will find "Ask your doctor."

I don't hear the word "amazing" overused that much, except on this forum. On the other hand, I'd like to ban "awesome"...

I like "Dead meat" from 1992.
I was 1st year in college at the time.
All through high school if someone got pi$$ed off at someone else, they'd say "Man, you are going to be dead meat!"
Haha, the good old days. Today if you said that, the police will arrest you for terrorizing.

Whatever happened to "Freeze, turkey!" from cops shows. Or "Drop the chalupa".

It's funny you say "cop show." Because "Cop" used to be slang and they didn't like to be called cop. While still slang, it's more of a commonly accepted term. In fact some of my cop patients refer to themselves as "cop."
Would "pig" or "fuzz" or "poe poe" be on the list of banned words? Or just on the list of offensive terms to call a cop?

Hilarious that you say that. I was going to mention "awesome."

Remember, it's not offensive words, per se, it's just words that are used so much they lose their effectiveness or are simply annoying.

I was told in grade school (approx 1965!) that cop stood for Constable On Patrol, so wasn't derogatory, just slang.

I'm tired of hearing "Fair Share."

They already have "so" in there ex. "That was SO awesome."

But I have a problem with sentences that routinely begin with so.

"So, like this is what the sentence is about."

Guess I hit two, 'cause "like" used inappropriately is another one of my peeves.

So like this is going to be like a totally amazing and awesome new year. Like.

Yup!

Yes, but you have to end the sentence with a question mark?

After a weekend of football, I am very tired of hearing that someone is the "go-to guy".

Wow, you just opened the door to at least 100 sports cliches. We could cut that in half if we could get those useless onfield reporters.

Halftime:

Reporter: Coach you are down 14 points. What are you going to do differently in the 2nd half?
Coach: Uhhh...score more points? Stop them from scoring? I think we will do the same thing, because I like losing by 28 points. But, really, that was a great question (you must have gone to a great journalism school). We just have to get the ball more to our go-to guy.
Reporter: Good luck.
Coach: Thanks.

Speaking of football,

HOORAY RAVENS!!!

Why is it that the reporters on the field are always attractive women? Yeah, I know the answer, but isn't that reverse discrimination? It's not that Erin Andrews (et al) doesn't know football, she is knowledgeable and/or well prepared on Game Day, but it's becoming a stereotype. Maybe the coaches feel more threatened if Brent Mussberger asks them why their team stinks, than if a woman asks.

D Cubed, you would not get along with my fiance.
She is die-hard Steelers girl since her earliest memory.
She grew up in Latrobe, Pa where steelers summer camp practices.
Every time Steelers verse Ravens she is fond of saying:
"This game is going to be a blood bath!" referring to the bitter rivalry.

35-7
23-20

In this case, I think it is only fair to call an Eagles v. Ravens game a bird bath.

Wow, this thread just got hijacked.

It was only relatively recently that there were ANY female on-field reporters that I can recall. The first I can recall was Robin Roberts--now the host of Good Morning America.

Sorry, Bert, John mentioned football, and I couldn't help myself.
It was an exciting weekend for us "Baltimorons".

Adam, JBS's numbers tell the story!

Donna

I think we should consult Joe Namath.

Damn, I just hijacked my own thread.

DCubed, what makes this upcoming marriage all the more tricky is that I have grown up in Maine and we are Pats fans. Steelers fans hate the Pats almost as much as the Ravens. So I have to be VERY careful when it comes to discussing Tom Brady. When I asked her father for his blessing before I proposed, he asked me if I was a Steelers fan! I said "I am now..."