BOSTON (Reuters) - Occupy this: a rabble bin. At least, so contend students during Michigan's Lake Superior State University who expelled an annual list of difference they hold so misused, stale and cliched they should be outcast in a year ahead.
"Occupy," a tenure compared with a months-long criticism transformation in New York and opposite a United States opposite income inequality and a accumulation of other amicable ills, was among a 12 nominees after only a few months of overexposure.
"It has been stale and abused, even to foster Black Friday shopping," pronounced Grant Barnett of Palmdale, California, who was among those to commission a word.
"We are headed to Grandma's residence - Occupy Thanksgiving is underneath way," pronounced Bill Drewes of Rochester Hills, Michigan, giving another instance of how a word has been overused.
At a conduct of a class, though, was a word "amazing," that garnered nominations from around a United States and from as distant pided as Israel and a United Kingdom for inclusion on a list by a propagandize in remote Sault Ste. Marie.
Many nominators mentioned overuse on television, privately by personalities such as Martha Stewart and Anderson Cooper, and on existence TV.
"Every speak uncover uses this word during slightest dual times any 5 minutes. Hair is not 'amazing.' Shoes are not 'amazing,'" pronounced Martha Waszak of Lansing, Michigan.
Although one censor suggested that a act of giving birth was extraordinary adequate to be termed, well, amazing, a tenure "baby bump," mostly trustworthy to profound celebrities such as Beyonce or Gwyneth Paltrow, drew scorn.
"This is a word we need to finally give birth to, afterwards send on a way," offering Mary Sturgeon of Vancouver, British Columbia.
The propagandize began a list of difference due for expulsion in 1976, when it named "at this indicate in time" a linguistic dud, as replaced for a obvious and superb "now." The college now receives good over 1,000 nominations any year by a website, lssu.edu/banished/.
Previous winners and nominees embody a terms "shovel ready" for 2010, "battleground states" for 2005, "24/7" for 2000 and "family values" for 1995.
Also on this year's list were "shared sacrifice," "blowback," that is infrequently exchanged with "pushback" to meant resistance, and "mancave," now a favorite with promotion copywriters.
"Not any male wants a recliner a distance of a 1941 Packard that has a cooler in any arm and a holster for a remote," pronounced David Hollis of Hubbardsville, New York.
Heading into a 2012 choosing year, votes were expel to anathema a tenure "win a future," a word that has been claimed by both a left (President Barack Obama) and a right (Republican White House carefree Newt Gingrich).
Other vote-getters enclosed "the new normal," "ginormous," a mash-up of huge and enormous, and "thank we in advance."
(Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
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