<p>Michigan's Lake Superior State University (LSSU), which invites submissions through the year to make the list, has also banished "viral", "epic" and "fail" for their overuse and misuse.<br /><br />The banishment of "Facebook" and "Google" as verbs was suggested by a Canadian word-watcher.<br /><br />"Facebook is a great, addicting website. Google is a great search engine. However, their use as verbs causes some deep problems," he submitted at LSSU, which first came up with its wordlist in 1976 as a publicity-seeking exercise.<br /><br />Topping the new word list is "viral".<br /><br />Jim Cance submitted: "Often used to describe the spreading of items on the Internet i.e. 'The video went viral.' It is overused."<br /><br />The word was also suggested for banishment by Kuahmel, who wrote: "This linguistic disease of a term must be quarantined."<br /><br />"Epic" and related phrases "epic fail" an "epic win" were banished for their "overuse" of "epic proportions!" Similarly, "fail" has been deleted for having "failed us all".<br /><br />Other words made redundant by LSSU are "the wow factor", "a-ha-moment", "back story", "BFF" (best friends forever) and "live life to the fullest".<br /><br />However, the popular LSSU list may be beginning to lose its steam.<br /><br />Word watchers are complaining about not banishing other overused words like "whatever", "I know – right", "like", "technically", "actually", "basically", "frankly", "to be honest", "anyways", "constantly", "really" and "very" among others.<br /><br />"Now, if we can just convince people to eliminate using 'actually,' 'technically' and 'basically.' These ego-stroking, filler words are rarely required by the people who over-use them," posted Michael G Robinson on LSSU's Facebook page.<br /><br />Ole Jacobsen recommended that the word "like" be banished.<br /><br />"How about a campaign to banish the use of the most over-used word: 'like'?" he wrote on Facebook.<br /><br />John Robert Kovalchik endorsed the idea: "How ironic! I just hit the 'like' button for this site. I am so tired of "like' being used unnecessarily that I coined the word 'likquacious'. <br /><br />It is a combination of 'like' and 'loquacious' and therefore, fairly self-explanatory."</p>
<p>Michigan's Lake Superior State University (LSSU), which invites submissions through the year to make the list, has also banished "viral", "epic" and "fail" for their overuse and misuse.<br /><br />The banishment of "Facebook" and "Google" as verbs was suggested by a Canadian word-watcher.<br /><br />"Facebook is a great, addicting website. Google is a great search engine. However, their use as verbs causes some deep problems," he submitted at LSSU, which first came up with its wordlist in 1976 as a publicity-seeking exercise.<br /><br />Topping the new word list is "viral".<br /><br />Jim Cance submitted: "Often used to describe the spreading of items on the Internet i.e. 'The video went viral.' It is overused."<br /><br />The word was also suggested for banishment by Kuahmel, who wrote: "This linguistic disease of a term must be quarantined."<br /><br />"Epic" and related phrases "epic fail" an "epic win" were banished for their "overuse" of "epic proportions!" Similarly, "fail" has been deleted for having "failed us all".<br /><br />Other words made redundant by LSSU are "the wow factor", "a-ha-moment", "back story", "BFF" (best friends forever) and "live life to the fullest".<br /><br />However, the popular LSSU list may be beginning to lose its steam.<br /><br />Word watchers are complaining about not banishing other overused words like "whatever", "I know – right", "like", "technically", "actually", "basically", "frankly", "to be honest", "anyways", "constantly", "really" and "very" among others.<br /><br />"Now, if we can just convince people to eliminate using 'actually,' 'technically' and 'basically.' These ego-stroking, filler words are rarely required by the people who over-use them," posted Michael G Robinson on LSSU's Facebook page.<br /><br />Ole Jacobsen recommended that the word "like" be banished.<br /><br />"How about a campaign to banish the use of the most over-used word: 'like'?" he wrote on Facebook.<br /><br />John Robert Kovalchik endorsed the idea: "How ironic! I just hit the 'like' button for this site. I am so tired of "like' being used unnecessarily that I coined the word 'likquacious'. <br /><br />It is a combination of 'like' and 'loquacious' and therefore, fairly self-explanatory."</p>