4 Jan 2010 - The Lake Superior State University in Sault St. Marie, Illinois, USA released its
annual list of banished words, terms so overused, misused and hackneyed they deserve to be sent to a permanent linguistic trash can in 2011. "Viral" often used to describe the rapid spreading of videos or other content over the internet, leads the list for the year 2010. Runners up include "epic" and "fail" often twinned to describe a blunder of monumental proportions. Fourteen words were on the list. Cliched terms such as "wow factor" , "a-ha moment", "back story" and "BFF" (Best Friend Forever) rated highly. The very au courant use of "Facebook" and "google" as verbs got a thumbs down as well. As usual, election-cycle zingers and catchwords quickly look as worn out as last year's campaign posters. The word "Mama Grizzlies", used to describe right-wing female politicians is therefore also on the list. Did somebody say Sarah Palin?
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