Some words should never be forgotten. Some words should be banished, or at least suffer a moratorium, due to misuse, overuse, and general uselessness. I appreciate both Malcom Guite’s and Lake Superior State University’s sensitivity to appropriate word-forgetting and salvation from word-forgetting.
Appreciate LSSU’s 2025 Banished Words List: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishedwords/
Appreciate Guite’s Lament for Oxford Junior Dictionary’s deletions: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/a-lament-for-lost-words/
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