What do the following words all share?

GREEN

CARBON FOOTPRINT or CARBON OFFSETTING

MAVERICK

FIRST DUDE

BAILOUT

WALL STREET/MAIN STREET

Internet and texting blues

-MONKEY

<3

ICON or ICONIC

GAME CHANGER

STAYCATION

DESPERATE SEARCH

NOT SO MUCH

WINNER OF FIVE NOMINATIONS

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

Lake Superior State University “maverick” word-watchers, fresh from the holiday “staycation” but without an economic “bailout” even after a “desperate search,” have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year’s list may be more “green” than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from “Wall Street to Main Street” say they love “not so much” and wish to have erased from their “carbon footprint.”