From the shores of Gitchee Gumee comes, as always, the official banished words list of the year. Every year (since 1976) the Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan graces us with this list of overused and annoying phrases and the 2017 list is longer than ever. Without further ado, let's get right to this year's crop of banished words and phrases.

You, Sir

Focus

Bête Noir

Town Hall Meeting

Post-Truth

Guesstimate

831

Historic

Manicured

Echo Chamber

On Fleek

Bigly

Ghost

Dadbod

Listicle

"Get your dandruff up..."

Selfie Drone

Frankenfruit

Disruption

While some of these are recent additions to the vernacular (bigly and post-truth, most notably), others are older phrases that have (for some odd reason) been revived (such as "You, Sir," which L.S.S.U. notes hails from the days of dueling.

But some seem rather dated, leaving us to wonder why they didn't make earlier banished lists (town hall meeting would have been appropriate the year the Tea Party rose, for instance, and listicle and guesstimate have been annoying pretty much since the first time they were used). Then there are entries that don't seem all that annoying, but which have been overused (disruption, echo chamber, focus, historic).

Technology and techno-slang always makes an appearance, this year being represented by 831 ("a texting encryption of I love you: 8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning" -- which we fully admit we'd never heard before), ghost ("to abruptly end communication, especially on social media"), selfie drone, and frankenfruit (a sub-species of frankenfoods).

There are some head-scratchers in there, which haven't ever annoyed us personally (manicured, as in lawns), and one that is just flat-out wrong ("Get your dandruff up..." which really should be "dander"). As always, it is impossible to figure the inner workings of the committee which decides which words and phrases are ban-worthy. Hey, maybe "ban-worthy" will make next year's list if we all start using it like crazy!

In any case, we close with our traditional (and historic) final paragraph, where we focus hard and cram all the banned words in, just to annoy L.S.S.U. with our echo chamber one final time. To the word mavens, we say: "You, Sir, have earned your bête noir status." We had a town hall meeting and decided your list was nothing short of a post-truth guesstimate. Bigly. Your Facebook page deserves ghosting, for all its disruption. Your listicle, in short, gets our dandruff up. If we flew our selfie drone over the manicured lawns of your university to hunt you down, we're guessing you'd be caught stuffing another frankenfruit into your sad dadbods. You may think you're on fleek, but you won't be getting any 831 from us. So there! We've already got enough to worry about in 2017, don't you think?

-- Chris Weigant

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