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GOAT, gaslighting and more words to leave in 2022
violeta ikonomova, Detroit Free Press
Mon, January 2, 2023 at 3:25 PM CST·2 min read
It is what it is: Another banished-words list from Lake Superior State University.
That phrase ranks 10th among the Upper Peninsula school’s annual list of words and phrases to leave behind last year, compiled with help from more than 1,500 submissions from language scolds around the world.
The No. 1 banished word for 2023 is GOAT — or Greatest of All Time — for what judges call “overuse, misuse, and uselessness.”
Rounding out the top five are:
Inflection point — a mathematical term said to have “lost its original meaning.”
Quiet quitting — “Trendy but inaccurate. Not an employee who inconspicuously resigns. Instead, an employee who completes the minimum requirements for a position.”
Gaslighting — a term whose “overuse” has disconnected it “from the real concern it has identified in the past: dangerous psychological manipulation that causes victims to distrust their thoughts, feelings, memories, or perception of reality.”
Moving forward — for, again, “misuse, overuse, and uselessness.”
LSSU’s former public relations director is said to have birthed the tradition at a New Year’s Eve party in the 1970s. W.T. Rabe collected his colleagues’ wordy grievances, published them, and received enough mail-in suggestions of hated phrases to fuel another list the following year.
“It’s our tradition to publish the world-famous Banished Words List on Dec. 31 so that people don’t begin the New Year by putting their foot in their mouth,” LSSU President Dr. Rodney Hanley said in a news release last fall. “No-brainer — which also made our list in the past.”
Hate a word or phrase that didn’t make the cut? Submissions are already being accepted for 2024.
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