Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of banned words and phrases. Check out the great work from these guardians of the language. It's not perfect, but it provides interesting fodder for conversation, especially for those of us who make a living with words. One with which I whole-heartedly agree is the morphing of celebrity names as a sort of pnuemonic device to help fans remember who's seeing whom.
Just get married already! Then we could dispense with the cute names in favor of Mr. or Mrs. Star of the Week. On second thought, that doesn't work all the time as we've seen from TomKat. And as long as many of those Hollywood marriages have been known to last, it might be a waste of time to learn last names, also. Still, I like the traditional way of identifying couples.
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