If you could banish one word/phrase from the English language, what would it be?

[UrbScotty]

Tell us what your least favorite words and phrases are, then submit them to Lake Superior State Universty for its Banished Word List!

[MrCoffee]

1. "langiuage" has to go

[XemaSab]

2. Amen, brother.

n/t

[Cabcere]

3. Beat me to it.

GMTA. :toast:

[MrCoffee]

5. It worked! We have THE POWER!!!

I wonder what else we can banish...


Chimpy, be gone with thee!

[Nailzberg]

6. LOL

Which reminds me, LOL should go.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

56. "If you will"

Drives me crazy.

Seriously.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Typo

I'd banish the word typo.

For no pertecular raisin.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. "Fixin' To"

Son of a bitch this drives me insane. You are ABOUT TO. Stop being a hick for Christ's sake.
Duckie

[ashling]

49. I'm fixing to go off on you !!!!

not really, I wouldn't do that. But I do want to respectfully point out that it is an idiom which is just as acceptable as, sa, the phrase "Son of a bitch this drives me insane." :)

[riona]

8. Too little, too late

[AlCzervik]

9. Blogesphere.

[BlueIris]

10. "Transitioning."

Because it's NOT. A. WORD.

[tjwmason]

16. Absolutely

Along with every other pseudo-verb invented merely by grabbing a convenient noun, right upto and including the term itself "verbing".

[BlueIris]

17. Hmmmm. I thought I had you on Ignore.

Hmmmm.

Are we at level 1 or something?

[tjwmason]

22. I don't think so

Perhaps you should try adding me to your ignore list now.

[uppityperson]

25. ?

:wtf: :rofl:

[tjwmason]

26. My thoughts entirely.

I made the only reasonable response I could think of.

[BlueIris]

29. Well, it appears the Ignore feature is actually working, so...

I'm not sure how you slipped through, tjmason. No worry. Easily remedied.

[tjwmason]

32. I'm delighted to hear that it can easily be remedied.

Wouldn't want to slip through the net.

[Critters2]

28. Dialoguing!!! I hate that non-word!! nt

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

11. creamy

:puke:

[jobycom]

12. Hang on, let me visit GD, and I'll be back with an answer shortly.

[jobycom]

14. Okay, how about "ones?"

First, I don't think one should have a plural. Second, it is often used to describe testes and equate masculinity with courage, as in "She's got a pair of big ones."

[Crabby Appleton]

21. My computer keyboard has 2 "ones" on it.

but they're not big.

[jobycom]

23. It has two numerals one.

:)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. George W. Bush

Or just the word Bush.

[jobycom]

15. How about a word combo? "It's not"

You know what it sounds like. Use "It isn't" instead.

[Catshrink]

18. bitchslap

it's just plain offensive

[tigereye]

19. "impacted" used as a verb (or a gerund, or whatever)

instead of using "had an impact", etc. Drives me nuts.


oh and the word "artist" used when someone means the plural of the word. :grr: I hear that on my local radio station all the time.

[Catshrink]

20. Me too.

Bothers the heck out of me.

[tigereye]

24. I think the only ones who should use that construction are dentists!

[Graybeard]

27. Like, ya know...

...that's probably two words,like ya know,like is one word,ya know, and ya know is, like another? So is that,like,allowed? Is that,ya know,within, like the rules?

[Lyric]

30. rubbish and cabbage

just ugly words
:hi:

[T_i_B]

31. Random

due to overuse by people who spend far too much time on MySpace & Facebook.

[BarenakedLady]

33. Git er done

Fucking annoys the hell out of me.

[Pushed To The Left]

34. The word "loser" to describe a person's economic status or lack of success in life n/t

[UrbScotty]

36. Agreed (nt)

[raccoon]

68. Right on! (meaning I agree with this poster, not that I think the wonderful

phrase "right on" should be removed from the language.

[Aristus]

35. "He goes...and I'm like..."

HATE, HATE, HATE THAT! :banghead:

[mvd]

37. The excessive usage of "like"

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. I've got more than one.

:mad: Here they are:

"Ramping up"
"Up or down vote"
"George W. Bush"
"multitasking"
"from the get-go"

There are others, but right now, these are at the top of my list.

[mduffy31]

39. Whatnot

It isn't a fucking word!!!!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

40. "might could"

I never heard it until I moved to NC, and it drives me batshit crazy (and whatnot). ;-)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

44. Have one more to add ... "trudat". (n/t)

[femmocrat]

41. "date certain", "nukular", "democrat party"

There are probably tons more....

[SallyMander]

42. moist

ew, i hate that word.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

45. "Fondle" is my "moist." (n/t)

[SallyMander]

47. ew, yah

fondle is bad too

[HERVEPA]

43. Grow the business

[swag]

46. "Literally,"

because so many people use it either as the polysyllabic place-holder word of first (and often only) resort, or to mean "figuratively."

[GirlinContempt]

54. I literally am inside your head getting your meaning.

[Ellen Forradalom]

48. Or Whatever

Citation: "I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better." --Nicole Richie

People out here in CA tack on 'or whatever' all the time. GAAAAAH!

[ashling]

50. Read - as a noun

as in, this thread is a good read.

[Richardo]

51. "truth to power"

God I am sick of that. x(

[DS1]

52. crunk

[LostInAnomie]

53. Effective

There is no more overused word in the teaching profession. I discovered, while finishing my Masters, that if you would remove the word "effective" from professional educational journals all that would be left is a three page pamphlet.

Really, expand that to all vapid "professional" jargon. "Thinking outside the box", "synergy", "result oriented", etc., it's all shit used to cover the emptiness of ideas.

[derby378]

55. Underpants

All apologies to our beloved DUer with that name, but that word has no place in everyday American English. We've got briefs, boxers, panties, shorts, and just plain "skivvies," but I think we should leave it at that rather than have Hollywood mindmakers shove this term down our throats.

[Radio_Lady]

62. Yeah, but what would happen to that wonderful rhyme of my childhood?

"I see London, I see France
I see (FIRST NAME GOES HERE)'s underpants."

[derby378]

67. Well, yeah, there's that...

:silly:

[RushIsRot]

57. Republican

[Skittles]

58. illegitimate (in reference to babies)

I'm sorry - if they're HERE they are LEGITIMATE

[WildEyedLiberal]

59. Anything corporate

"corporate culture"

"synergy"

"paradigm shift"

"think outside the box"

"actionable"

"global network"

And that doesn't even touch on all the disgusting corporate euphemisms for terrible things:

"wage re-evaluation policy" aka slashing employee's paychecks in half to make the company more money

"downsizing" aka firing half your staff

[Radio_Lady]

60. "Like, the word 'like' would, like, be my choice. Or whatever!"

[idgiehkt]

61. this is not a word: "ur"

people who use that should be put out of thr misery.

I know it's not 'officially' a word, but it should be banished now, before it gets a foothold.

[Orsino]

63. "Retard"

The most cowardly of slurs.

[Skittles]

64. oooh, good one

if they'd ever known anyone with Downs Syndrome they would know how terribly misplaced a slur it is

[Onlooker]

65. "Still working on it?" when used to describe eating n/t

[TK421]

66. downtime n/t

[Burma Jones]

69. Awesome - for anything that does not inspire Awe.......And... Tragedy instead of Disaster

[raccoon]

70. "Veggies." It sounds like baby talk. nt

[LanternWaste]

71. "It's-like-you-know"

"It's-like-you-know" which some may see as four words, but the way it's used these days, it's become a compound word used instead of "uh".

An ear-drum gouging sound if ever there was one...

[formerrepuke]

72. "fuck"....some people would be rendered speechless...n/t

[Bzzzz]

73. "Quite Honestly"...

gawd I hate it when my boss says that and it's numerous times daily!!! Friggin' repuke!