2023's 'Banished Words List' has been revealed. Here are the words that its judges deem misused, overused -- or simply useless.
For the love of all things sacred, please stop saying “
” – unless you are shouting about a herd of mid-size animals. At least, that’s how a team of judges from Michigan’s Lake Superior State University feel about the term – an acronym for the “Greatest of All Time” – as it tops this year’s Banished Words List. The university has released its annual list, amassed from submissions from around the world, which highlights phrases or words that its judges deem misused, overused – or simply useless.
,” along with “inflection point,” “quiet quitting” and “gaslighting” makes an appearance on the list, which has been released annually since 1976. The list serves “to uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical – and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating,” according to the university, which said it had received more than 1,500 nominations.
Nominators and judges alike took issue with the phrase, with one disgruntled contributor lamenting that the terminology is “applied to everyone and everything from athletes to chicken wings.” Inflection point This, judges say, is both overused and misused, as a “mathematical term that entered everyday parlance and lost its original meaning.” Quiet quitting Quiet quitting – which some say means doing the bare minimum at work – was bandied around a lot last year.
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