- Amazing
- Baby Bump
- Shared Sacrifice
- Occupy
- Blowback
- Man Cave
- The New Normal
- Pet Parent
- Win the Future
- Trickeration
- Ginormous
- Thank You In Advance
The first thing that hit me when I read the list yesterday was that I had never heard of four of the banned words. This list includes shared sacrifice, blowback, win the future, and trickeration. I am not saying I don’t know what the words mean, I just do not recall seeing them used much. I guess when you are as old as I am, have lost all interest in politics, have never dealt with vampires, nor home schooled a kid, you might have missed some of these. Somehow I don’t think I am alone in not knowing what trickeration means.
I did, as a precaution, use the search feature of my website to ferret out abuses and found that I have used the word amazing seven times in nearly three years, mostly to describe food. Go figure. One of the uses was stating that we were watching The Amazing Race on television so I am going to deduct that one and cite myself for six infractions. I also searched for ginormous and thank you in advance, but found no uses. Thank you in advance is probably one that should be used more on this blog so I am keeping that one. I vow to never use the word trickeration in exchange for keeping thank you in advance.
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Mary O'Brien says
Thanks. I was afraid to look it up for fear I might start using it. I will be most happy if "baby bump" goes away for good. I am sick of hearing that every skinny celebrity who eats one too many bacon wrapped shrimp before the Oscars is pregnant. And, if Michael ever refers to the master bedroom as his "man cave" again he is out of here. I have a ginormous filet mignon I am grilling for dinner. I already took Prilosec so I shouldn't have to worry about blowback. Happy New Year! It is going to be amazing!
Andrea says
ok Mom you peaked my interest and I had t know what trickeration meant so I had to look it up. What I found will explain it all. Trickeration is a fictitious word commonly used by football announcers to make themselves feel intelligent. When the word they actually mean to say is: Trickery.