{"id":1358,"date":"2012-01-08T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2012-01-08T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:50:11","slug":"banished-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/banished-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Banished words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Hope your holidays were great and you\u2019ve made some achievable new year resolutions (language learning-related of course!).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s kick off with some English words you definitely shouldn\u2019t be using this year, with Lake Superior State University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lssu.edu\/banished\/current.php\">List of Banished Words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Amazing<br \/>\n2. Baby bump<br \/>\n3. Shared sacrifice<br \/>\n4. Occupy<br \/>\n5. Blowback<br \/>\n6. Man cave<br \/>\n7. The new normal<br \/>\n8. Pet parent<br \/>\n9. Win the future<br \/>\n10. Trickeration<br \/>\n11. Ginormous<br \/>\n12. Thank you in advance<\/p>\n<p>These are pretty America-centric, particularly \u201ctrickeration\u201d (it\u2019s a term used by American football analysts apparently). I definitely have to agree with \u201cbaby bump\u201d though \u2013 it\u2019s so cutesy I can\u2019t stand it!<\/p>\n<p>Which words would you banish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year everyone! Hope your holidays were great and you\u2019ve made some achievable new year resolutions (language learning-related of course!). Let\u2019s kick off with some English words you definitely shouldn\u2019t be using this year, with Lake Superior State University\u2019s List of Banished Words: 1. Amazing 2. Baby bump 3. Shared sacrifice 4. Occupy 5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,44],"tags":[931,3,527,44],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-words","tag-banished-words","tag-english","tag-english-words","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}