Purging the Queen’s English of “tweet,” “app,” and “sexting”

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Using an app to tweet about sexting? One university wants you to watch your language.

Lake Superior State University, though no doubt a fine institution of higher learning, doesn’t have big name recognition. But it does have one annual PR stunt created by the school’s public relations director back in 1975: a “word banishment” list for the year that just ended.

The list’s full name, “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness,” pretty much sums up its function. For 2010, four tech terms made the cut.