(Sault Ste. Marie, MI) — The deadline to submit entries to Lake Superior State’s 2023 Banished Words list is fast approaching. LSSU has compiled its yearly mock-serious Banished Words List since 1976 to uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are hackneyed, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical—and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating.
The top banished words for 2022 included “No worries” and “At the end of the day” which ranked second and third respectively. The most popular phrasing people nationwide and worldwide loved to hate: “Wait, what?”
Submit nominations for the Banished Words List for 2023 by 8am Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, November 30, at lssu.edu/banishedwords
LSSU will “circle back” on the “deep dive” and announce results on December 31, to start the New Year on the right foot, er, tongue.
