A friend of mine sent me a story on December 31 about how Lake Superior University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan has targeted environmental words as part of their annual “”Words to Be Banished from the Queen´s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”
The annual list, includes “green” and “going green” as well as “carbon footprint” and “carbon offsetting,” the university reports. The list, issued each year since 1975, comes from thousands of nominations each year. Other favorite words to make the latest list include: “maverick,” “staycation” and “bailout.”
This comes on the heels of an article in the 2008 titled, …