By JEFF KAROUB
Associated Press Writer
DETROIT – In its annual effort to protect the Queen’s English, a Michigan university is insisting that “shovel ready” be buried, “tweet” be tossed and all “czars” be banished.
Lake Superior State University shamed those and several other words and phrases when it released its 2009 List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.
It insists that “shovel ready,” incessantly invoked by the Obama administration to sell its $787 billion federal stimulus bill, dug its own grave. It forced its way into speeches and out of the mouths of the president and too many other politicians in past months.