SAULT ST. MARIE, Mich. (WGN) — Every year in January, Lake Superior State University releases a list of their top 10 banished words and 2025 is no disappointment. A new year brings the promise ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most ...

“Hack,” “impact,” “slay,” “iconic,” and “rizz” dominated Lake Superior State University’s 2024 list of banished words. This year, similarly overused words have been selected for banishment. Lake ...

Period. Every year, Lake Superior State University releases its Banished Words List, a tradition that dates back to 1976, highlighting words and terms that are overused, misused or simply unnecessary.

Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with 20 Nigerian words and expressions in its latest update. The newly added entries include popular terms like “japa,” “agbero ...

With approximately 170,000 words currently in use and an additional ... BASE jumping Fourth on the list is BASE jumping, an extreme sport that involves leaping from fixed structures - often ...

Microsoft Word came out during Ronald Reagan's first term in the Oval Office, and in the decades that have passed between then and now, it has become one of Microsoft's most important and ...

Last week, we published an article about the new list of “banished words” from Michigan’s Lake Superior State University highlighting words and phrases that are misused, overused ...

So when given the choice between including multiple albums by an artist and finding room for a record that added something important or interesting to the list, we almost always took the second ...

United States officials have imposed sanctions on an online network known as the Terrorgram Collective, designating it a “terrorist group” over its promotion of violent white supremacy around ...