Banned Words of 2010

Here are the 35th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselesness:

Shovel-ready

Transparent/Transparency

Czar

Tweet

App

Sexting

Friend as a verb

Teachable moment

In these economic times …

Stimulus

Toxic assets

Too big to fail

Bromance

Chillaxin’

Obama-prefix or roots

I’d like to add: Loved-ones, at risk, severe-weather, community, for-the-children, and black experience.