40 Banned Words and Phrases- Pt. 2

I decided to make the ban on certain words and phrases into two sections. It’s funny how angry some people get over certain words. I’m always correcting people in my family and they can’t stand it. It’s not that I think I’m better than them, but it gets so annoying when you hear the same words not pronounced correctly or used in the wrong context. I’m going to college to learn these types of things; I think using it in my everyday life will only help me get better. Below are three words on the banned list.

1.      1. "Bust instead of burst. NBC’s Matt Lauer was a notable offender in talking about the “busted” BP oil well. Journalists should know better." -George Bulanda and Rebecca Powers

·         I believe this is in the one hundred common misusage problems that we went over when I was in high school. Some of these words are tricky but like the magazine said, you would think journalists would know better. I went to the dictionary to look up the difference and under the definition of bust it had to burst. These words are supposed to be different, yet they use the other word in the definition. So, I went to the origin and found that bust was to be the verb of “to burst” and it originated in 1806. ("bust." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 03 Feb. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bust>.)

1.       2. "End result. Because there’s no beginning result, there’s no need to differentiate. The result automatically comes at the end." -George Bulanda and Rebecca Powers

·         English is wordy and my media writing professor keeps repeating to us that journalists want to get rid of the extraneous words. End result would definitely fall in that category. A result is an effect of what happened previously, so obviously it is an end result but that’s just redundant.

1.      3. "Lay is for placing. Lie is to recline. Lie down." -George Bulanda and Rebecca Powers

·         Another pair of words that are in the 100 common misusage problems. I remember a teacher telling me that lay is to lay an egg and lie is to go to bed. That is the way that I keep these two straight. 

 

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