Each year since 1976, Lake Superior State University has released a list in late December of words that should never be used again based on their overuse in the 12 months prior. This year's list largely revolves around the election and the economic crisis:
Maverick
From Wall Street to Main Street
Desperate search
monkey, when used as a suffix
game-changing
carbon footprint or carbon offsetting
green
bailout
"winner of five nominations."
*3 - It's the first time an emoticon has made the list.
First Dude
icon or iconic
staycation
not so much
it's that time of year again
Leave a comment and let us know what 2008 word you think should be banned forever.
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http://agitationist.com/101-web-business-cliches-that-must-die-in-2009
And as for the effect of the olympics - we have new verbs "To medal" "To Podium", as in "He podiumed three times" (yecch) joining other awful verb converts like "dialoguing" and "main-streaming"