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Lake Superior State University released it's 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness today. This year's somewhat paltry list of only sixteen was culled from more than 4,500 bête noir nominations.
Techlingual No-nos
SEARCH -- Quasi-anachronism. Placed on one-year moratorium. "Might as well banish it. The word has been replaced by 'google."
(Hmmm... try telling that to the Live Search folks.)
i-ANYTHING -- 'e-Anything' made the list in 2000. Tech companies everywhere have picked this apple to the core. "Turn on…tune in…and drop out." "Banish any word that starts with it. i am just tired of it. it's getting old. "
PWN or PWNED -- Thr styff of lemgendz: Gamer defeats gamer, types in "I pwn you" rather than I OWN you. "This word is just an overly used Internet typo. It has been overused to the point that people who play online games are using it in everyday speech."
A Live Search on iPwn3d returns 5 hits; the same search on Google returns 130 hits. Does this mean Google is more dated?