BANISHED WORDS 2005! As we count the hours until the American Dialect Society announces its Words of the Year 2005, consider the Lake Superior State University 2006 List of Banished Words.

As explained at the website's History page, the words are carefully selected to be driven "from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness."

Note that the illustration on the History page bears a close resemblance to the New Yorker cartoon pictured here. Coincidence...or conspiracy?

Previous coverage of the Word of the Year can be found here.