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Inspired by an annual list of words which should be banished, drawn up by Michigan's Lake Superior State University (among the 2009 candidates: green, carbon footprint, maverick, first dude), readers of the Guardian, suggested a long list of additional words they hate, most of which are also in lamentably wide use on this side of the Atlantic. Among their suggestions:Get ("As in approaching the