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Un-Word of the Year

A "salad" of words
Courtesy of Chris Goan, This Fragile Tent (Creative Commons)
A "salad" of words

It’s that time of the year again when dictionaries around the world try to sum up the year in a word or two.

But instead of adding yet another “Word of the Year” to our already verbose lives what we need is a way to eliminate words that we would rather never see anymore.

Call it the Un-word of the Year.