Lake State's Banned Words for 2010.

Each New Years Eve for the last 33 years, faculty at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste Marie, MI issue a list of words that should be banned for the coming year. These are typically words that are over used, misused or just plain horrible use of the english language.The school recieved 1000's of nominations each year for the list. Here is a complete list of words to be banned for 2010. Follow this link to LSSU.com for comments and more details:

SHOVEL-READY

TRANSPARENT/TRANSPARENCY

CZAR

TWEET
And all of its variations…tweetaholic, retweet, twitterhea, twitterature, twittersphere…

APP

SEXTING
Sending sexually explicit pictures and text messages through the cell phone.

FRIEND AS A VERB
Came into popularity through social networking websites. You add someone to your network by "friending" them, or remove them by "unfriending" them.

TEACHABLE MOMENT
What might otherwise be known as 'a lesson.'

IN THESE ECONOMIC TIMES….
Nominations concerning the economy started rolling in as the 2009 list was being put together last year, i.e. "bailout." They kept coming this year, in these trouble economic times. " South Park " warned us about what would happen if we angered The Economy.

STIMULUS

TOXIC ASSETS
We think we're going to be sick.

BROMANCE

CHILLAXIN'
Nominated for several years. We couldn't chill about it anymore.

OBAMA-prefix or roots?
such as these compiled by the Oxford Dictionary in 2009: Obamanomics, Obamanation, Obamafication, Obamacare, Obamalicious, Obamaland.