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Becky Sullivan

UNCOVERED: An inflection point for goats please quiet quit these banished words moving forward - The Untold Story

There's no debate about this GOAT. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

When was the last time you called someone a GOAT? Or declared an "inflection point," or answered a yes-or-no question with "absolutely"?

Probably too recently, say the faculty of Lake Superior State University, the Michigan college that releases an annual list of words that they say deserve to be "banished" from our vocabularies over "misuse, overuse and uselessness."

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