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Banished Words of the Future: A Black Balloon "Curation"
Banished Words of the Future: A Black Balloon "Curation"
By Mikael Awake
January 16, 2012

Trickeration. Blowback. Ginormous. Lest you think I'm coming up with Huffington Post headline ideas, these are just three of the dozen words added to this year's list of banished vocabulary. Diction has been a hot topic here of late: last week, James R. offered his thoughts on banishing, or at least curbing, our use of the word "literally." 

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Like Literally: Rethinking the World’s Worst Contranym
Like Literally: Rethinking the World’s Worst Contranym
By James Rickman
January 11, 2012

What follows is not an attempt at grammar Nazism, even though the first thing that pops up when you google the word “literally” is a definition that includes the words “not literally.”

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