2016 Annual Banished Words List Revealed

16:00 January 06, 2016

Renowned scholastic word-mill Lake Superior University has unveiled its 41st Annual List of Bannished Words. Conceived during a staff New Year's Eve party in 1976, the list has since grown to include more than 800 words selected from tens of thousands of nominations.

Leading this year's list of verbal blunders is beginning a sentence with the word "so."

So...here is this year's list:

  • So
  • Conversation
  • Problematic
  • Stakeholder
  • Price Point
  • Secret Sauce
  • Break the Internet
  • Walk it Back
  • Presser
  • Manspreading
  • Vape
  • Giving Me Life
  • Physicality 
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