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Don’t say that!

Lake Superior State University on Monday released its 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. The 19 words or phrases that the school suggests you eliminate from your vocabulary are:

– perfect storm

– Webinar

– waterboarding

– organic

– wordsmith/ wordsmithing

– author/ authored

– post 9/11

– surge

– give back

– ‘blank’ is the new ‘blank’

– Black Friday

– back in the day

– random

– sweet

– decimate

– emotional

– pop

– It is what it is

– under the bus