It’s time to leave your cringe word era behind. Period. Every year, Lake Superior State University releases its Banished Words List, a tradition that dates back to 1976, highlighting words and ...

She suggests that you pretend not to hear the “s” to spare yourself the cringe. That young people are engaging in any formalities and celebrating one another at all is praiseworthy.

However, most kids told us they found the word cringe. Has “slay” become old? We went to the Eaton Centre in Toronto, Ontario, to ask teens what they think. Oxford University Press said the ...