It. Lake Superior State University has unveiled its list of banished words for 2024. Hear about it at urban legends and stranger truths certain words or phrases make their way into the modern vernacular. When used with high frequency, it can make your vocabulary seem a bit limited. Lake Superior State University continues its decades long tradition of banishing a list of popular words from the previous year to determine the words to be cut. Nominations pour in. LSSU received more than 2000 suggestions from 20 different countries