Lake Superior State University 2011 List of Banished Words

[Andrew]

Current list here, previous years here.

No surprise to see "epic" and "fail" on there. Can't say I disagree as they're definitely overused, separately and together. It's surprising that "Google" (as a verb) hasn't made the list until now though.

[shadowgrin]

Those who complain about 'man up' are mostly women. Not surprising.
Also some sensitive men who need to man up.

[JaoSming]

F the list, ill continue to use Google as a verb but I'll never get this bad

'I'm going to Twitter a few people, then Yahoo the movie listings and maybe Amazon a book or two."

[The X]

Yep, I use Google & when joking I use "they need to man the f*** up"

[rise]

Crap. I just used 'Epic' in my last post (about Adam Morrison ). That fails: I'm just sayin' I should google some viral stuff about the American People.

jk, I use google as a verb a lot, I say "I'm just sayin'" a lot when I talk to my friends, I really only use "aha moment" in math class, I use fail quite a bit (also in math class ), maybe I say epic sometimes, but the other ones - not really.

[Andrew]

I think Google as a verb is acceptable, just another neologism/genericised trademark that's quicker to say than "search(ed) the Internet for it".