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Lake Superior State University's claim to fame is a yearly compilation of all the words that should be "banished from the Queen's English." Much like the OED word of the year list except the opposite, "Selfie" beat out "twerking" to top this year's most-hated words. Here's the complete list of banished words since the '70s in alphabetical order. [BBC]