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The Bigly Historic Banished Words Listicle

[ Posted Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 – 22:17 UTC ]

From the shores of Gitchee Gumee comes, as always, the official banished words list of the year. Every year (since 1976) the Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan graces us with this list of overused and annoying phrases and the 2017 list is longer than ever. Without further ado, let's get right to this year's crop of banished words and phrases.

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Final Donations Plea

[ Posted Monday, January 2nd, 2017 – 17:41 UTC ]

First off: I am taking one final vacation day today, sorry. But never fear, original columns will return tomorrow, and it'll be a busy week. We've got the banished words to run down (although this year's list was rather underwhelming, we have to admit), the penultimate column in the Obama Poll Watch series, [...]

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