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The New Year’s Banished Words

Another New Year's tradition is the annual List of Banished Words.

The list created by Lake Superior State University creates a list of words for misuse, over use, and general uselessness.

Here is a list of some of the 16 words that made their list.

Awesome.

Ask your doctor, used quite often during medical commercials.

We're pregnant, women will be quick to tell you, it is not typically we.

Undocumented alien.

Gitmo, the nickname for the Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba.

Or I anything.


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