"My bad" I cringe everytime I hear someone say this!

a, an, the, to, too, if, of, and peristalses is beginning to grind on me.

I would add "thank you for the opportunity to respond." It usually means: "Let me think about that for a second while I contemplate why the heck are you asking me such a silly question."
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Expletives in this comment were changed to avoid getting banned.

There's some bad thinking behind that shoddy speech: Milam's defense of B'moon is inexcusable. He has apparently adopted her delusional version of the carriage shack problem.

Not what Stan Milam says but the way he (struggles to) say it. Ahh, um, I,I,ahh,um ahh, stutter, stutter, hesitate, ahh, um, ahh. For a man who makes his living talking, he sure needs to untie his tongue. It sounds as if he doesn't have a real good grasp on what he's talking about. He can't be seen as credible the way he stumbles over his words. "The way we speak does make a difference"

My list of over used words is very short.
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Brett
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Favre
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Retirement

"Story line, or "story-line." What does it mean? A story. As in, "here's a story line we're following for you here on CNN, the most trusted name in saying too little, too often." Or, in the sports world "This young man's story line is simply amazing. Why, he eats strawberry ice cream for breakfast!" Holy big whup, Batman.
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Now, newspapers have borrowed this phrase, because it lets them run summaries of stories without saying: For you who don't want to read a long article, here's the short version."

"as it were" and "if you will"

"Appropriate" drives me crazy. Public officials love it. Of course you want every solution you propose, every word you speak, everything you do, to be appropriate. That's a given. If you "took appropriate action" to deal with a problem, that tells us nothing. Tell us what you did, not whether, in your judgment, it was appropriate.

"awesome". "cool"

cat's pajamas

"Change" used as a political slogan. Ironically, it seems to mean "more of the same".

"Extreme" anything.

stay the course....

wuzzzzz up?, dude,true-true,the trains moving on,get on or stay off(favre),chillin like a villin,whatever,

Hey Testerrific, glad to see you're back from your "Lawd help me Jezuzzz of Bethesda" rant the other day. I thought you were lost to us forever, rocking back and forth in your tighty-whities on a metal folding chair, eating Cheetos going on with your insane mutterings. Glad to see you've found a new obsession in bacon.
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I too love to mess with clerks. I go to buy, say, motor oil (or some other non-edible commodity) and they say, "You wanna bag for that?" and I reply, "No I'm gonna eat it in the car." Sometimes they get it and sometimes they don't.
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I hate it when people make up their own words like "conversate". It makes me twitch. "I'm trying to conversate with you." Making an arbitrary word longer by adding a suffix doesn't make you look smarter.

Wow, there are some real racist and sexist comments on this board. I would appreciate if they would be banished. Come on folks, this is 2009. Quit being so ignorant! But of course, this is Janesville so I should not be surprised.

For all intents and purposes

this (or that) point in time

I'm sooo wasted

How about the Valley Girl and juvenile "LIKE" ?.... I was "like" instead of "I said", Impact instead of Effect, replicate instead of duplicate, and the famous "OK" which is almost always unnecessary .......

Yes, that one has to go as does "you got that right", which is still hanging in there.

"It is what it is" The first time I heard that was during the Brett Favre non-retirement speech and now I hear it all the time.

"begs the question" is misused in the sense of demanding the question or demanding a certain question be asked.

"begs the question" really means to arguing in favor of a point by simply implying or stating that the point is true. Failing to have the point reasonably follow from relevant premises.

"At the end of the day..." (I just like to go to bed at the end of the day.)
"It begs the question..." (Are we really so desperate that we need to beg instead of just ask the question?)
On the other hand, my favorite new phrase is "I'm SHOCKED", said with extreme sarcasm.

Here's MY word that has to go...

decimate

What it MEANS is to destroy or kill 10% (hence the deci-) but it has come to be used as to totally or nearly totally destroy.

The correct word for THAT would be "obliterate"

iz aint gunna reed theeeze sillie postins no moore cuz thay maek mi hed hert sumthang feerce

i gess i will jest tri two tink owtsyd da bocks down neer mane streat or wahl strete

but furst i shuld tri too halp mye grene munkey wash there durty carbun futprnt. he is sutch a mavurick, thee furst dued two baleowt mye butt durhing mi icahnich steakashun

ov cowerse hee wuz a wynnur ov phive nomeenashuns az a gayme changur aphtur a despurat suurch.

ya know, itz thaht tyme ov yere agen butt theeze lsts pleeze mee knot sew mutch

happee nu yeer <3

I could do without these words:

"Hey, pal, you gunna finish that sandwich?!"

Here's a link to the complete list:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php...

I agree with janesvillecomments, people that are too stupid and ignorant to say "asked" instead of "axed" don't have a clue.

Mark707, thanks for posting the actual list. It irked me that the article didn't list all the words.
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I'd like to take an axe to anyone pronouncing the word "asked" as "axed". I also have no respect for people who use disrespect as a verb. You can be shown disrespect or you can be treated disrespectfully, but if you say someone "disrespected" you, you should be axed to shut up and sent back to grammar school.

Villalamesville...I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that comment. Sounds oddly sexist to me, and thusly, it is thoroughly intriguing to a fellow misogynist like myself. On a completely other note...has anyone ever tried bacon on a pizza? Not bacon bits mind you, but REAL bacon???? I never really considered it myself until I recently tried it...and God Help me...it is delicious!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody else tired of dealing with issues exclusively, instead of including some
problems, concerns, doubts, uncertainties, regrets, disagreements, shortcomings,
liabilities, disappointments, topics, conflicts, considerations, and, among many
others, some plain old, simple things?

Lake Superior State University's 2009 list of banished words:

green

carbon footprint or carbon offsetting

maverick

first dude

bailout

Wall Street/Main Street

monkey

an emoticon heart, formed with a "less than" symbol (which looks like a sideways "v") and the number 3 that's used in e-mails and text-messaging.

icon or iconic

game changer

staycation

desperate search

not so much

winner of five nominations

it's that time of year again

tjncj...HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!

ljs64-They are probably people who care and pray?

Testeriffic, give it up, your not funny but have a nice day.

I personally would love to see the end of the "Have A Nice Day" response as some sort of latently friendly bullcrap exchange that everyone accepts in daily existence as a wonderful experience. You know what I mean? When you are in a checkout lane at a supermarket, and the gum-chewing, totally disinterested checkout person says "Have A Nice Day"...that checkout person doesn't care if you have one or not!!! And I sure don't give two farts in a burrito factory if that same checkout person has even an adequate day after my purchase, let alone a GOOD ONE!!! To my estimation, 90% of interpersonal communication in the new millenium is regimented bullcrap, and it angers and annoys me. What is the point of it all??? My friends, it is TIME TO END ridiculous banter in the guise of friendly bullcrap in 2009!!!! PLEASE DO WHAT I DO...When the checkout person mindlessly says "Have A Nice Day" while you are completing your purchase of Wheaties, just look that person directly into the face with a grimace and respond "Sorry, I Have Other Plans" and then skulk off with your Wheaties. God Help me, it is fun. And it will be the ONLY time that checkout person ACTUALLY reacts to your response in a non-mechanized way!!!!! And sometimes, the fuzz is even called, but always when I have already vacated the parking lot. Not that it has ever happened to me, but I am just saying....

I would like to see an end to the phrase, "In my thoughts and prayers"
Who do these people think they are?

How about "Main Street versus Wall Street," as if there is some type of prize fight taking place. In addition, anything with bubble attached to it. Housing bubble, Internet bubble, energy bubble. "Think outside the box," could go away also. In addition, "He/she really stepped up to the plate," has worn its welcome. "Can you hear me now," is also over used.

no sarcasm gfan. my word no more 'ignorants'. i will still refer to the hypocrisy as ignorant...just not yo posts;) on the subject id REALLY like to never hear the term 'marijuana prohibition' again, unless referred to in the past tenst;) peace everyone an happy new year!!

How about pecksniffian? I could probably make it through next year without using it.

it's like you know um like um you know i'm um liking um like you know man like all da words--dude

Lately I'm hearing the word "rockin'" used in the sense of "making something exciting" e.g. rockin' the blog. This use is in slight contrast to its more traditional use e.g.

The new Huntington Place Singers Greatest Hits CD is rockin' my house.

How could they have overlooked the most overused term in all of the blogosphere...."institutionalized child rape"???

The word "gift" (or worse yet "regift") as a verb. "He gifted him a tie." Ugh!

Turning nouns into verbs should be a capital offense.

e.g. To grow the business.

For some reason, "listen my friend" and "also" are two I could go all of 2009 without...and oh, TAXES! Wouldn't it be beautiful if we went the whole year without that word?!

thekid, given the chance that you're not being sarcastic, I appreciate your response. And maybe billnewbie, (who appears to be starting the new year as he left the old one) can learn a lesson from you about not sullying up a new blog as a distraction from being thoroughly dispatched on an older one.

As for you, billnewbie, your overly adjectival, polysyllabic verbiage continues to defy the requirements of logic, profundity, and redemption.

PS, thekid, even if you're being sarcastic, at least you're funny. Unlike some people I know.

your wish is granted gfan. i will never use that word towards one of your posts again. ill make that my 2nd new years res.

Quite right kid, stop using "ignorant", use "asinine" from now on!

I wish thekid would stop using the word "ignorant" when responding to my posts.

"Lake Superior State University" what a great use of tax dollars being spent; make a list to give out.

How about “you know”. Since Caroline Kennedy is incapable of speaking a sentence without saying “you know” at least three times, this would effectively remove her from the public spotlight and the political arena.

Retool. It was a challenge this fall to write stories about the Assembly race without using that word.

I'll be a happy reporter if I never again write "floodfringe" or "floodway".

We should invent a cereal called budget crunch.

Ann Marie Ames

How about "HOT".....everything from people to clothes to cars need to be something other than "HOT".

I'm drawing a blank on words or phrases I'd like to see go away. One I've grown tired of is when people say "A couple three times."

One of my least favorites:

That color really makes it "pop"

OK, here's all the economic-related words and phrases I never want to hear or write again (I've been keeping a list): downturn, slowdown, budget crunch, perfect storm, retool and the worst of all -- Main Street vs. Wall Street.