Words That Need To Stay in 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, happy twenty twenty six to all of you. I
know that this time is a time of reflection for
a lot of us. You want to think about what's
in the year ahead, and maybe some of us are
thinking about what we want to leave behind. Well, I
could think of a few things, and so can Lake
Superior State University. They are up in the up of
Michigan and they come out with a twenty twenty six

(00:21):
Banished Words List. They do this every year. This is
the fiftieth anniversary of the Banished Words List. And I'm
going to start at number six because this is one
I totally want to see gone full stop. It's just
I get it, like you want the conversation and whatever.
Can we find a better way to say that. Number
five we want to get rid of the word incentivize. Yeah,

(00:43):
especially at work, if you know what I'm talking about.
Number four massive, we want to see that we're gone.
Number three cooked, I actually kind of like cooked. I
think that that's pretty useful. Still. Number two demure, you know,
very mindful, very demure. That was a trend earlier this year.
And parents, if you are listening right now, this is

(01:03):
the bane of all of our existence. Six seven, I'm
so tired of hearing six seven. I actually got to
drive the Star car in the Santa Parade this year,
and the amount of kids that did the little six
to seventh thing to the car and yelled at me
was it was more than anything else I saw that night. Well,

(01:24):
I want to hear from you parents, What words do
you want gone this year? Drop me a message on
Instagram at Adam Theocho or on our website West Michigan
Star dot com