2012 List of Banished Words

Bottle Tree, Folly Beach, S.C.

Beautiful blue bottle tree on Folly Beach unrelated to entry. 

Lake Superior State University 2012 List of Banished Words

• AMAZING

• BABY BUMP

• SHARED SACRIFICE

• OCCUPY

• BLOWBACK

• MAN CAVE

• THE NEW NORMAL

• PET PARENT

• WIN THE FUTURE

• TRICKERATION

• GINORMOUS

• THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

I sit in management meeting so I could come up with a lot more, but I would like to immediately offer up these words for banishment consideration:

• Squee

• Smitten

• Swoon  

• Noms 

 Clearly I've been reading too many blogs written by young women who squee, swoon over and are often smitten by noms.