Lake Superior State University

Lake Superior State - the smallest public university in Michigan - has released its annual list of banished words. The list’s proper name is the List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness, and has been a Lake Superior tradition since 1976. What words have been banned this year?

Lake Superior State, the smallest public university in Michigan, has released their annual list of banished words. The list's proper name is the List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness, and has been a university tradition since 1976. What words have been banned this year? Find out after the jump!

My alma mater, Lake Superior State University (the smallest public university in Michigan and your last stop before Canada,) has released it's annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness". This is the 37th annual list, which started as a publicity ploy by the school's public relations department on New Year's Day 1976. This year's a