I am generally not in favor of banning words. I kind of like this list, though. As soon as I saw that hubby* was on there, I thought, “Now this is a list I could get behind.”
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* I have always found hubby annoying. It’s right up there with DH, DD,, and DS on the List of Words That Make Me Want to Stab My Eyes Out After Reading Them.
Oxford Fajar (a subsidiary of Oxford University Press) has launched a campaign called Save the Words.
“Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. . . . Today 90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words. You can change all that. Help save the words!”
There’s a section where you can adopt a word, complete with a pledge to use that word as often as possible. You can search for a particular word or have one randomly generated for you. I chose the latter option, and as soon as I saw the usage example I knew I had found my word:*
teterrimous
adj.
most foul“The ninja inadvertently announced his presence when he let out a most teterrimous fart.”
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*Because ninjas are cool and butt-related humor is hilarious.
