This year has seen a number of perfectly respectable words used until they are tattered and ready for the ash can. Can we give them a rest and perhaps bring them back when they don't connote this election season? With the help of some friends, Rosie has compiled this list of candidates for a vacation without pay.
Chad not to be confused with cad
Undercount how do you do that?
Bipartisanship bi what?
Reform as in Medicare, Social Security and health care
Taxes hated by all; let's not even think of them until Jan. 15
Dimpled once a nice description of an attractive facial feature, now connoting a piece of paper with a slight bulge
Lockbox its use depends on who has the key
Constitutional crisis what we don't think we are in
Subliminable Huh? (OK, this one never was respectibable.)
E-shopping a game of chance, of skill in navigating a maze
Nasdaq look down, you might see it
Interest rates the factors that run our lives
Alan Greenspan as Louis IV said, "L'etat c'est moi."
Cautious optimism - that's hedging your bets
New Economy it doesn't look so good right now
Click not in the sense of being compatible
Wazzup who wants a beer?
Boy band if you're a 14-year-old girl you will know what this means
Sugar Busters for all the talk there don't seem to be many thinner people walking around.
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