DETROIT – Fox News reported, “A Michigan University has issued its annual list of annoying words, and those flexible enough to take selfies of themselves twerking should take note.”
‘Selfie’, a term that describes a self-taken photo, often from a smartphone, led the way among the more than 2,000 nominations submitted to Lake Superior State University’s 39th annual batch of words to banish due to overuse, overreliance and overall fatigue.
Even President Barack Obama got into the act this month when he took a well-publicised selfie with other world leaders in South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. After taking a selfie at FNB Stadium, the word became popular in South Africa.
According to Fox News, “It’s a lame word. It’s all about me, me, me,” wrote David Kriege of Lake Mills, Wis. “Put the smartphone away. Nobody cares about you.”
The idea of putting together a list of most of annoying words has been going on since 1975, the list has grown to more than 800 words, many from the worlds of politics, sports and popular culture.
“The list is made up completely from nominations. We don’t just sit around and think of words that bug us,” Fox News quoted Tom Pink, a spokesman for the school in Sault Ste. Marie, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
‘Twerk’ or ‘twerking’, a sexually provocative way of dancing, found a dominant place in parlance due to Miley Cyrus’ performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The idea of putting together a list of most of annoying words has been going on since 1975, the list has grown to more than 800 words, many from the worlds of politics, sports and popular culture.
In South Africa, comedienne Tumi Morake had the audience in stitches when she showed off her assets while twerking on stage during an all women show, Bitches.
‘Hashtag’ refers to a word or phrase with no spaces preceded by the pound sign on the microblogging website Twitter.
Other words found to be annoying include ‘Twittersphere’, ‘t-bone’, ‘Obamacare’ ‘intellectually/morally bankrup’ and anything ‘on steroids’.
In South Africa, comedienne Tumi Morake had the audience in stitches when she showed off her assets while twerking on stage during an all women show, Bitches.
Fox News reported, “People also tired of the suffixes ‘-pocalypse’ and ‘-ageddon’ used to make words such as ‘snow-pocalypse’ or ‘ice-ageddon’.”
Source: FoxNews.com
