Banished Word List 2017

[Samfan]

Lake Superior State University in Michigan has released their Banished Word list for 2017, which lists words that were overused or misused (or both) in 2016, as submitted by the public. This year, You, Sir; historic; focus; and manicured made the list. What would you add?

http://www.lssu.edu/banished

I was disappointed not to see comments by submitters on the list page, but there is a link to the Facebook page, which includes comments.

Samfan

[marigold]

Samfan, you have brightened my day. Always love this list which I'd forgotten gets issued New Year's Day. Also love the comments. Thanks muchly (tongue in cheek) for posting this.

[Sunshine]

Thanks Samfan!

Looking at the master list, I figure there are a few words or phrases that can be un-banned (the Howard Cosell one, for instance). I wouldn't mind adding some more people to the list, though!

[kitchentease]

This list fascinates me every year. I find myself relegated to the dinosaur category this year as there were some, used in the context of social media, I had not heard of. 831? The list maker's comment was spot on!

[Samfan]

Thanks Samfan!

Looking at the master list, I figure there are a few words or phrases that can be un-banned (the Howard Cosell one, for instance). I wouldn't mind adding some more people to the list, though!

Sorry, but which one is the Howard Cosell one? All I remember from seeing Howard Cosell is him saying, "this is Howard Cosell..."

I didn't really recognize almost all of these words/phrases as overused or misused, except for maybe You, Sir and historic. Guess I wasn't paying enough attention this past year.

Samfan

[Sunshine]

Thanks Samfan!

Looking at the master list, I figure there are a few words or phrases that can be un-banned (the Howard Cosell one, for instance). I wouldn't mind adding some more people to the list, though!

Sorry, but which one is the Howard Cosell one? All I remember from seeing Howard Cosell is him saying, "this is Howard Cosell..."

I didn't really recognize almost all of these words/phrases as overused or misused, except for maybe You, Sir and historic. Guess I wasn't paying enough attention this past year.

Samfan

That's from the 1980 list: Howard Cosell, En Masse. Not sure if they were banning everything Cosell was saying; there was a time one couldn't escape him on television. I liked him, though.