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Here is a list of words sought to be banished from the lexicon by a distinguished group of purists. http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
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not so much words as clichés.
now a case can be made for telegraph.. even AT&T is now leagally AT&T--they dropped the words telephone and telegraph from their legal name..
who telegraphs anything nowday?
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BLOG – and its variations, including blogger, blogged, blogging, blogosphere. Many who nominated it were unsure of the meaning. [e.a.]
And we should take such asssholes seriously?
I nominate the word purist, on account of I don't know what it means :)
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"Telegraph" is still a word of some utility, albeit less than it was when it was used to describe communication by dots and dashes. A person playing a sport is sometimes described as telegraphing when she/he does something which gives a prior indication of how she/he is about to move, e.g. "The fighter would have been more effective with the left hook had he not telegraphed it every time he threw it."
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What's that other list, is it New York Times, that seeks new definitions...?
OK, I offer puerist a Catholic priest <EG>
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I offer maverick, as in politician...they just don't get elected anymore, do they? 
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Then there's "recorded live." Well how the heck else could they record it?
TEd
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Then there's "recorded live." Well how the heck else could they record it?
Gratefully dead. [fleeing emoticon]
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Gratefully dead. [fleeing emoticon]
Truckin - I'm goin home
Whoa-oh baby, back where I belong
Back home - sit down and patch my bones
and get back Truckin on
stuff the ice cream, I'll take the real thing!
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