2019 BANISHED WORDS

Lake Superior State University issued its 44th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. The words were chosen from a pool of submissions from the public.
– “collusion”
– “wheelhouse”
– “in the books”
– “thought leader”
– “yeet”
– “-OTUS” as an initialization for “of the United States,” as in “POTUS” for the president and “FLOTUS” for the first lady.
– “wrap my head around”
– “platform”
– “ghosting”
– “litigate”
– “grapple”
– “eschew”
– “crusty”
– “optics”
– “legally drunk”
– “importantly”
– “accoutrements”
– “most important election of our time”
* This is the most important list of our time.
* They want to ban “thought leader” ’cause people keep saying “Lake Superior State University is not much of a thought leader.”
* Yeah, we had to look up “yeet”, too. It’s become sort of an all-around exclamation for anything from a way to express excitement, or the word you use when throwing something at somebody, or when you shoot for a 3-pointer and a sure it’s going in, or a style of dance where you keep your hands in front of you… look, no one has a flipping clue what “yeet” means. So stop using it.
* The bread was so “crusty” I had to “eschew” it.
* I was hoping we’d stop hearing the phrase “Dancing With The Stars has been renewed for another season”.