Michigan School Banishes 2011 List of Overused Words

Jacob Kittilstad:

Michigan's amazing Lake Superior State University put out it's amazing list of the most overused words of 2011.

Topping the charts - the word 'amazing'. But there's plenty more clichés that you might be amazed made it.

Occupy Duluth, Occupy Minneapolis, Occupy Wall Street.

Folks over at Lake Superior State University, however, have a new protest and it's one of words they want banished in 2012 because of their over usage.

Like this one: "occupy (vb) 1. to be a resident or tenant of, to dwell in."

"I hear that word thrown around all the time," Allison Wegren said. "People using it seriously talking about the Wall Street occupation as well as using it jokingly. Like something to carve into a pumpkin."

Or how about "ginormous (adj) 1. an adjective combining the words giant and enormous."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 7, 2012 1:12 AM
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