From there to here, from here to there, Funny things are everywhere
It’s a great week for content here at the Mothership. Earlier in the week, we had a righteous (but, as always, entirely civil) debate about parenting, and today we have some word geekery. All we need is a cute kid anecdote and we’ve hit the “my favourite things” trifecta!! I’ve blogged about Lake Superior State … Continue reading “Words: Banished and Best of 2009”
Okay, so retro is cool, right? And retro is basically recycling old stuff and making it new again, often by those who missed it the first time around, right? Grand, so I’m totally retro in finally remembering on St Patty’s Day that I forgot to put up my annual posts in January about the word … Continue reading “Worthy words and banished words”
The most annoying thing about this time of year is the endless recaps, reviews and predictions for the new year. Yawn. The best thing about this time of year is the linguistic analyses of word trends in the past year. I am such a word geek! For instance, we have from the New York Times, … Continue reading “Best and worst of words, 2008 edition”
It’s a new year, and time for us to take a look at the annual list of banned words, courtesy Lake Superior State University. We did this last year, too, remember? Every year, LSSU takes votes from contributors on the words and phrases that should be banished and compiles them to a year-end list. The … Continue reading “Banished words 2007”
Lake Superior State University in Michigan has released its annual list of banned words and phrases. This year chose 17 of the more than 2000 nominations they received. Phew, none of them seem to form a part of my regular vernacular. Here’s the list: Surreal Hunker down Person of interest Community of learners Up-or-down vote … Continue reading “2006 Banished Words”