The banished words list is out

Lake Superior State University's banished words list for 2005 is out with such overused chestnuts as:

• Blue state/red state (a red state for those of my generation meant the USSR)
• Battleground state
• Enemy combatant (as opposed an an enemy noncombatant or a friendly combatant?)
• Uber (amen to that)
• Wardrobe malfunction (this one malfunctioned about 11 months ago)
  
• And numerous others that really should be rarely taken out of our verbal quiver.
  

And, note that blog is on the list. As one nominator wrote: “Maybe it’s something that would be stuck in my toilet.”

Think about it. Maybe the public's trying to tell us something (grin).