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"GOAT", Absolutely & Irregardless among banned words on annual list

2023 Banished Words
2023 Banished Words
LSSU

Lake Superior State University has released it's annual list of words that need to go away due to "misuse, overuse and uselessness."

The list of banished words for 2023 are:


GOAT
Inflection point 
Quiet quitting
Gaslighting
Moving forward
Amazing
Does that make sense? 
Irregardless
Absolutely
It is what it is

LSSU has compiled an annual Banished Words List since 1976. According to a press release from the university, they later copyrighted the concept, "to uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical—and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating."