(AP) -- The votes are in at a Michigan school, and one word has come in for a semantic shellacking: viral.

Lake Superior State University on Friday released its annual list of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

Viral - linked to popular online video clips - has garnered the most nominations from submissions across North America.

The list also includes "epic," "fail," "I'm just sayin"' and Sarah Palin's "refudiate."

As for the term "shellacking," that didn't make the Sault Ste. Marie school's 36th annual list. That surprised the selection committee, which expected big returns for the phrase Democratic President Barack Obama used to describe how his party fared in mid-term elections.

Lake Superior State University's 2011 list of banished words:

- viral

- epic

- fail

- wow factor

- a-ha moment

- backstory

- BFF

- man up

- refudiate

- mamma grizzlies

- the American people

- I'm just sayin'

- Facebook/Google as verbs

- live life to the fullest

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