WORDS: Words are our business, and we were delighted to receive a tip from an Era reader about the Lake Superior State University’s 44th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.

How did we miss the first 43 years?

Some of this year’s offenders: “Yeet, as in to vigorously throw or toss” — we didn’t know what that meant, so we made sure to add the definition; “Ghosting, Collusion, Grapple, Eschew, Thought Leader.”

Yikes. OK, we agree. We looked to the past to see what else has made the “enough, already” list.

From 1976: “Meaningful dialogue, implement.”

From 1979: “Ambience, beautiful, the bottom line.”

From 1981: “Moral majority, past history”

From 1983: “The bullet went all the way through the body, very unique”

From 1986: “Let’s do lunch, snuck.”

From 1991: “Actual facts, step-saving kitchen”

From 1994: “Mother of all ____, more than happy.”

From 2003: “Branding, black ice, extreme, got game.”

From 2004: “LOL, metrosexual, capture alive.”

From 2008: “(Blank) is the new (blank); It is what it is.”

From 2013: “Job creators, kick the can down the road.”

From 2016: “Manspreading, conversation, giving me life.”

The website for the university has a section devoted to the banished words list, and archives too.

We looked at 1994 and found one of our favorites: Ross Perot’s prediction of a “giant sucking sound” from NAFTA. There was a list of redundant phrases, too, which we found amusingly entertaining: “gathered together, stupid mistake, past experience, new recruit, always consistent, helicopter overhead.”

In 1986, the letter “R” from the word Washington — “Warshington.” We confess we know some people who still say this, along with “Pixburgh” and “Brafferd.”

To borrow from another year’s list, to each his own.