D*DE HAS BEEN BANNED!!!
nytimes.com
December 31, 2000
Certain Words Out for 2001
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:35 p.m. ET
Chad, be gone.
Not the country or the popular male first name. Just the hanging, dimpled,
and pregnant kind that launched the word into Americans' vocabulary this
presidential election.
Chad was the year's most nominated for exile from the English language
on the 2001 Banished Word List, compiled by Lake Superior State
University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
``We've heard it 12 times an hour on the news,'' said Mike Warner of
Anchorage, Alaska. ``Chad has gotta go.''
Among the other words from the world of politics that wandered onto
this year's list: Fuzzy math, unleashed by President-elect George W.
Bush.
From the world of business, dot-com emerged as a popular word to kick
out of the vocabulary. Last year, ``e''-anything made the list.
Kelly Hall, of York, Pa., wants ``shaken up'' -- a reference to a sports
injury -- taken out of sports lingo. ``As if athletes were martinis,'' Hall
said.
``Dude,'' as in the movie ``Dude, Where's My Car?'' made the list, as did
``diva.''
``I thought it was bad when I heard Madonna described as a `diva.'
Since then, I've seem promotions for shows on `male divas' and
`transvestite divas,''' said Jennifer McGraw, of Brevort, Mich.
Just because words make the list doesn't mean people will stop using
them. ``Road rage'' was on past lists, but it's still a popular way to
describe angry, aggressive drivers.
Among the phrases on this year's list: ``Have a good one,'' ``One of the
only,'' and ``Manual recount by hand.''
Lake Superior, the smallest public university in Michigan, releases the list
Jan. 1 from submissions gathered from academia, advertising, business,
journalism, the military, politics and sports. This is the list's 26th year. |
