{"id":995,"date":"2011-01-07T22:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2011-01-09T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T22:39:06","slug":"banished-words-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/banished-words-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Banished words list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Banned-words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Banned-words.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Banned words\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-997\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve managed to avoid posting about any \u2018word of the year\u2019 lists, so this is a nice alternative: Lake Superior State University has come up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lssu.edu\/whats_new\/articles.php?articleid=2135\">list of words<\/a> it would like banished in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Officially known as the \u201cList of Words Banished from the Queen&#8217;s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness\u201d, the list is now in its 36th year and received over 1,000 nominations for words to ban. The number one word? <em>Viral<\/em>. As one nominator eloquently put it: &#8220;This linguistic disease of a term must be quarantined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the Huffington Post\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/02\/list-of-banished-words-fo_n_803333.html#s218215&#038;title=Viral\">slideshow<\/a> of some of the other words that made the list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve managed to avoid posting about any \u2018word of the year\u2019 lists, so this is a nice alternative: Lake Superior State University has come up with a list of words it would like banished in 2011. Officially known as the \u201cList of Words Banished from the Queen&#8217;s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness\u201d, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44],"tags":[931,51,932,44],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-words","tag-banished-words","tag-language","tag-overused-words","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}