Awesome how a gimmick can put a JSchool on the map: Your neighbor,
Lake Superior State University, polls students and faculty for the year's most overused words and blasts them across the Internets every January first. (Note to Drake admissions folk: This sort of thing would have revved my 18-year-old engine as I was applying to schools, nerd that I am/was.)
The truncated
list, for your pleasure:
- PERFECT STORM
- WEBINAR
- WATERBOARDING
- ORGANIC
- WORDSMITH/WORDSMITHING
- AUTHOR/AUTHORED
- POST 9/11
- SURGE
- GIVE BACK
- 'BLANK' is the new 'BLANK' or 'X' is the new 'Y'
- BLACK FRIDAY
- BACK IN THE DAY
- RANDOM
- SWEET
- DECIMATE
- EMOTIONAL
- POP
- IT IS WHAT IT IS
- UNDER THE BUS
