Are you a random lover of everything organic that has been authored in the post 9/11 world? Do you get emotional over sweet webinars about waterboarding? Or are you content to let 2008 be the new 2007?
If so, you're not going to appreciate the latest list of words banished from English for misuse, overuse or general uselessness issued by America's Lake Superior State University.
The 33rd annual list features quite a few terms that are less prevalent in English parlance than American. But phrases such as "giving back" to society "back in the day" and "decimate" - literally, to reduce by one tenth, but frequently used wrongly to mean annihilate - are familiarly jarring.
Less well known in the UK is the term "under the bus" - as in 'he should be thrown under a bus after his performance' - often used by sports commentators in the US. Also something - usually a decorative touch - making something else "pop".
They also dislike the use of "perfect storm" by "wordsmiths", "black Friday" and "surges", originally meant for military build up, now used for an expansion of anything.
It is what it is. Though not if those at LSSU have their way.
Banishing tedious words and phrases is a fine idea and a welcome one when it comes to the ubiquitous "bling" and "bovvered" that linger in British parlance.
As such we're interested in hearing the over- or misused words or phrases you find grating enough to extinguish from every day speech here: a Guardian readers' list of banished words, if you will.
I can't bear the "comfort break" cricketers needing the loo take, which was included in the latest Oxford English dictionary, along with the add on "-tastic" and other new words.
And, while not particularly new, I'd get rid of "bottom up/top down" initiatives and the unbearable "going forward". You?
