Lake Superior State University's Banished Words for 2010

The concept, for those unfamiliar with it:

Forever may be stretching it, but the annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness has been going strong since New Year's Day 1976 and shows no signs of stopping. People from around the world have nominated hundreds of words and phrases such as "you know," "user friendly," "at this point in time," and "have a nice day," to be purged from the language.

The tongue-in-cheek Banishment List began as a publicity ploy for little-known LSSU. The University, established in 1946, was opened as a branch of Michigan College of Mining and Technology to make room for returning World War II veterans. Lake Superior State College became autonomous in 1970 and developed into Lake Superior State University in 1987. It has grown from the tiny branch college into an institution offering more than 60 degree programs in fields such as engineering, fisheries and wildlife management, biology, criminal justice, nursing, teacher education and more.

And The List for 2010.

Not surprised to see "In these economic times..." on there, same goes for Tweet. Chillaxin' does seem like an overdue inductee.

This list Si nitpicking to an insane degree. They need to chillax.

I have never heard the term "shovel-ready". I'm gonna get my use out of it, before Deakin decides to ban it.

Oh...first time hearing this....i think "you know" was replaced in england to "you get me"

In the US, "you know" was replaced by "nahmean."

I overlooked this one:

CZAR

Long used by the media as a metaphor for positions of high authority, including “baseball czar” Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, appointed by team owners as commissioner-for-life in 1919. U.S. president Woodrow Wilson had an “industry czar” during World War I. Lesser-known “czar” roles in government during the last 100 years include: censorship, housing and oil czars in 1941; rubber czar in 1942; patronage czar (1945); clean-up (1952); missile (1954); inflation (1971); e-commerce (1998); bioethics, faith-based and reading czars (2001); bird flu (2004); democracy (2005); abstinence and birth control czars (2006); and weatherization czar (2008).

Sorry, Mike Fratello. Guess it's time for a new nickname.

I know a guy who goes to school at LSSU. All the schools in Michigan's Upper-Peninsula are a little strange-- maybe it's the being in the middle of the wilderness part, I don't know, I just know I would die if I had to go to school up there