Lake Superior State University 2009 List of Banished Words
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
My favorite banished four-letter-word word is “Icon.” Icon has been overused to death and every third-rate entertainer is now an icon.
Columnists and writers who should know better just can’t stop writing it.
Icon icon icon icon.
Vomit.
Whenever I want a character to use a mouthful of cliches, I visit the lists of banished words. Someone should give Lake Superior State University a prize.
Grapeshot, who is reading Proust again this days. No seriously. Haven't seen one single "icon" in Proust.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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