'Amazing' tops annual vote for words that should be banned
Lake Superior State University's poll shows readers want adjective debased by overuse 'banished'
"Baby bump", "man cave" and "amazing" should all be banished from the English language, according to Lake Superior State University's annual survey of the year's worst cases of word abuse.
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Thursday, 5 January, 2012
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