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Article: It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" "went missing"
By Andrew Stern
CHICAGO, Dec 31 (Reuters Life!) - It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" and other combined nicknames for celebrity couples "went missing" in the New Year, a Michigan university said on Sunday in its annual list of cliches deserving banishment.
Lake Superior State University's 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as "Gitmo" for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as "undocumented alien;" and such Internet-inflected synonyms as "pwn," as in the phrase "I pwn (own) you."
By Andrew Stern
CHICAGO, Dec 31 (Reuters Life!) - It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" and other combined nicknames for celebrity couples "went missing" in the New Year, a Michigan university said on Sunday in its annual list of cliches deserving banishment.
Lake Superior State University's 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as "Gitmo" for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as "undocumented alien;" and such Internet-inflected synonyms as "pwn," as in the phrase "I pwn (own) you."
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-01-03T130923Z_01_NCU271694_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-CLICHES.xml&src=rss
