University’s difference to banish embody ‘bigly,’ ‘dadbod’

DETROIT — You, sir, (or ma’am): Focus, if we will, on a historic, on fleek listicle containing difference nominated for bigly banishment. But don’t assemble a city gymnasium assembly or get your dandruff adult in a relate cover over them.

Northern Michigan’s Lake Superior State University on Saturday expelled a 42nd annual List of Words Banished from a Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.

The tongue-in-cheek, non-binding list comes from suggestions to a Sault Ste. Marie school. It includes “you, sir,” ‘’focus,” ‘’town gymnasium meeting,” ‘’historic,” ‘’echo chamber,” ‘’on fleek,” ‘’bigly,” ‘’listicle” and “get your dandruff up,” an apparent surrogate for “dander,” a hair-and-skin kin.

The others were “Frankenfruit,” ‘’bête noire,” ‘’guesstimate,” ‘’ghost,” ‘’dadbod,” ‘’selfie drone,” ‘’manicured,” ‘’post-truth,” ‘’disruption” and “831” — a texting encryption of “I adore you” (eight letters, 3 words, one meaning).

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The divisive 2016 choosing shabby nominations, and was reflected in a inclusion of “bigly” and “post-truth.”

“Bigly” also done Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 for 2016. President-elect Donald Trump was lustful this year of observant “big league” though creation it sound like “bigly,” an primitive adverb or verb dating to around 1400.

“Post-truth,” a tenure infrequently used to report a stream domestic climate, is Oxford Dictionaries’ word of a year.

John Shibley, Lake Superior State orator and list-compiler in chief, pronounced “lots of domestic vitriol” came in this year, with people wanting to anathema “President Trump,” ‘’Crooked Hillary” and “Electoral College.” Shibley pronounced he “made an editorial preference not to wade into that swamp,” — emptied or otherwise.

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He pronounced all difference that done a final list garnered 200-300 votes apiece, and a tip vote-getter was “echo chamber,” with some-more than 500 submissions.

Overall, a university perceived submissions from about 8,000 people and maintains an repository of some-more than 850 words.

Another Michigan propagandize takes a conflicting approach: Detroit’s Wayne State University attempts by a Word Warriors debate to shovel estimable difference that have depressed out of favor. This year’s list enclosed “absquatulate,” that means to discreetly and abruptly leave a place, such as a entertainment or party, but informing a host. That’s an old-school analog to “ghost” on a outcast difference list.

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