{"id":1005,"date":"2017-12-16T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2017-12-17T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T10:38:10","slug":"vt-releases-list-of-7-words-banned-in-official-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/vt-releases-list-of-7-words-banned-in-official-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"VT Releases List of 7 Words Banned in Official Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTPELIER &#8211; The Vermont legislature has been advised to avoid certain words while drafting policies and legislation. This order, which came directly from the governor&#8217;s office, is intended to continue indefinitely with the purpose of streamlining the state&#8217;s laws.<\/p>\n<p>The seven words that are prohibited in all future official Vermont state business are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artisanal<\/li>\n<li>Creemee<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>The<\/li>\n<li>Upta<\/li>\n<li>Wicked<\/li>\n<li>Yup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the words, such as &#8220;creemee&#8221; and &#8220;artisanal&#8221; were thought to be previously added frequently in an attempt to be more \u201cVermonty\u201d and were banned for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Words like \u201cupta,\u201d \u201cwicked,\u201d and \u201cyup\u201d were deemed too informal, and there is some impetus to go back and amend previous laws containing these words. This will likely be a multi-year undertaking, as almost every item worked on by the legislature contains at least one of these three words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u201d was banned after a study was done on overused words in Vermont legislation. \u201cThe\u201d was the most used word for 23 years running, and is now prohibited for the sake of variety.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no official cause given for the removal of \u201cMassachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MONTPELIER &#8211; The Vermont legislature has been advised to avoid certain words while drafting policies and legislation. This order, which came directly from the governor&#8217;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/vt-releases-list-of-7-words-banned-in-official-legislation\/\" title=\"VT Releases List of 7 Words Banned in Official Legislation\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montpelier","category-vermont-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TWFI-2017_12_16.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}