Do you roll your eyes every time a newscaster calls a coincidence a "perfect storm"? Cringe the thousandth time a teenager invokes "random"? The faculty at Lake Superior State University shares your vexation. Here are some selections from the school's list of words and phrases to be "banished" for "Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness" in 2007:
- "Perfect Storm"
- "Webinar" (web seminar)
- "Waterboarding"
- "Organic"
- "Wordsmith"/"Wordsmithing"