Lake Superior State University’s 2008 list of banished words or phrases:

. perfect storm

. Webinar

. waterboarding

. organic

. wordsmith-wordsmithing

. author-authored

. post Sept. 11

. surge

. give back

. ‘blank’ is the new ‘blank’

. Black Friday

. back in the day

. random

. sweet

. decimate

. emotional

. pop

. It is what it is

. under the bus