Lake Superior State University has developed a list of 2009's most misused, overused and useless words - an ideal complement to our recent post on business jargon to avoid.
According to Time, the list is dominated by technology-related words including 'Tweet', 'friending', 'unfriending' and 'App' (the shortened form of software application).
As a result of the global economic crisis many finance related words made the list, including 'toxic assets', 'bailout' and 'too big to fail'.
Here are the first 15 words from the university's verbosely titled "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness":
According to Time, the list is dominated by technology-related words including 'Tweet', 'friending', 'unfriending' and 'App' (the shortened form of software application).
As a result of the global economic crisis many finance related words made the list, including 'toxic assets', 'bailout' and 'too big to fail'.
Here are the first 15 words from the university's verbosely titled "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness":
- Shovel-ready
- Transparent/Transparency
- Czar
- Tweet
- App
- Sexting
- Friend as a verb
- Teachable Moment
- In These Economic Times...
- Stimulus
- Toxic Assets
- Too Big to Fail
- Bromance
- Chillaxin'
- Obama as a prefix
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