Banned words
Lake Superior State University has released its annual Banished Words list. Of the 1,500-plus nominations of words and terms for banishment for misuse, overuse, and uselessness, the winner is GOAT, which stands for ‘greatest of all time’ and is “applied to everyone and everything from athletes to chicken
wings”, one critic complained. Also unofficially banned are: inflection point; quiet quitting; gaslighting; moving forward (still?); amazing; does that make sense?; irregardless (not a word); absolutely; it is what it is (infuriating AF).
The future of ablutions
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Sign of the times
