Words that you should not use in my presence
Use of any of the following words or phrases in my presence my earn you a visit.
ATM Machine
This is redundant. You are saying 'automatic teller machine machine.' Why isn't
just ATM good enough?
PIN Number
(see ATM machine)
Irregardless.
Not a word. Don't even try.
Cybrarian
You're a librarian or not. You may deal with the Internet but that's part of
the job. It doesn't earn you this non-title.
Webliography
It's a bibliography. It may or may not contain Web resources.
Webinar
It's a seminar. Get over it!
Italian (pronounced eye-talian)
You don't go to Eye taly? No you go to Italy so it is Italian.
Internetpreneur or Netpreneur
Found them in spam I received recently so that's about as much explanation as I can give. There's just no excuse.
Orientate or worse, orientated
What's wrong with "orient" and "oriented"?
Submissions to welcome.
Contributors:
Louise Alcorn (West Des Moines, IA Public Library), April Carson (Hays, KS Public Library),
Robert Prager