More than one thousand entries are in The Dictionary of Unendurable English; here are a few of them:

architect Misused for design (or similar words). • Advanced modeling tools based on Visio enable developers to architect applications, design databases, and model business processes. USE devise. • You'd never ask an interior designer to architect a house, and you probably wouldn't go with an architect's opinion of a color scheme for the walls of your living space. USE design. • Howard Alan's vision is to architect buildings that are of the continuous present. USE engineer. • They were faced with the dilemma of how to rearchitect the existing site and deliver a high-quality application to their customers on a timely basis. USE redesign.

To architect is an absurdity. Not everyone can concoct an effervescent verb from some stolid noun. Though nouns do indeed occasionally become verbs, architect is hardly a good candidate, for many other verbs already provide more exacting definitions of what to architect seeks to define. A word not born of need begets only noise.

clean Misused for cleanliness (or similar words). • Add one cup to each gallon of warm water and sponge mop, then allow to dry for a fresh smelling clean that kitchens and bathrooms deserve. USE cleanliness.

Evidence that some people — marketers and advertisers more than most — have contempt for their audiences is their using the abomination clean. Some words are to be cherished, some to be questioned, and some, like the noun clean — and whoever uses it — to be disdained.

cowtow Misspelling of kowtow. • The officials clearly cowtow to superstars and favor the home team ridiculously. USE kowtow. • While some will use this investment as an argument that the Gates Foundation will cow-tow to Monsanto's interests, there is another aspect to stock ownership that is worth bringing up. USE kow-tow. • It's the biggest public service scam in town, and the officials that cow-tow to this situation know it, protect it, and expand it. USE kow-tow. • Should we cowtow to the deep South, if it's to our own detriment? USE kow-tow.

Kow-tow (or kowtow) is the correct spelling. Cow-tow (or cowtow) is a spelling that only bovine linguists would be "mooved" by. SEE ALSO kowtow; kowtowed.

disabilitate Misused for debilitate. • Sleep disorders like apnea, narcolepsy and insomnia can be dangerous and disabilitating. USE debilitating. • Many who suffer from a disabilitating illness swear that this wonderful machine has changed their life. USE debilitating. • Also, note that microwave and lower frequency EMF weapons are in wide use today as so called non-lethal weapons to disorient and disabilitate people. USE debilitate. • Back pain can cause severe suffering and disabilitate anybody. USE debilitate.

Disabilitate, an apparent muddle (or "blend," as a linguist might say) of disability and debilitate, is incorrect for debilitate, which means to enfeeble or enervate. SEE ALSO deabilitate.

(mad) skillz Jargon and junk (sometimes called slang) are written by people who feel as though they write well, but who are, in truth, unaccomplished writers. Naïve and impressionable, these writers may be trying to sound knowledgeable or insightful, cool or clever, but they actually sound senseless. One of their dreadful terms, (mad) skillz, is illustrative: • Adam Sandler took home two comedy awards, one for his acting skillz and one for his movie Grown Ups. • But hear me out, folks — I've got mad skillz in the cooking department, and I'm also a pretty snappy writer. • In 2008 it was nearly 16000 according to Smith and her nifty Google map skillz. • So as you are positioning your young ones to be a future leader, in addition to Mandarin lessons and public speaking, make sure they've got mad shoveling skillz. • To lighten the mood, here's Murky showing off her mad write-in educational skillz.

As the popularity of a person is no measure of his intelligence or kindness or even likeability, so the popularity of a word is no measure of its ability to convey meaning. Slang may be fun to say once or twice, but never, if you aspire to write well, is it appropriate in your writing. It is not hip, it is not cool, and the only people who think it is are no better at writing than the people whose writing they emulate, the jargon and junk users.

These sentences are as forgettable as the slang used to compose them: • At any other school, his Johnny Depp good looks and Aberzombie style would secure him a place among high school royalty. • If it is utterly fantasmarific, I'd probably order from them again. • "Sceotical" sounds like a highly majuberous term to me. • Liberace would have ralphed, and so would Rachmaninoff. • Since i frequently do not capitalize i's when i'm just typing that could certainly have been my bad, but really, it should be capitalized. • We scour the internet looking for epic fails and post only the best quality fail pictures and videos.

Slangy words (slapdash ideas and other incompetencies) are forever trying to take the place of literate words (thoughtfulness and care). SEE ALSO out there.

w00t Merriam-Webster, which apparently likes the idea of being mocked, announced in December 2009 that its Word of the Year is w00t — that's w, zero, zero, t. It's an alphabetic–numeric word that online gamers use to express their pleasure or approval, their happiness or triumph at, say, having defeated an online enemy. Some people exclaim yay; others w00t.

Yes, numbers have come to words, owing largely to video games and text messaging, and the dupes at Merriam-Webster who celebrate and promote this idiocy.

Online gamers sometimes substitute letters for numbers to form l33t — that's l, 3, 3, t — or leet, speak. Leet, short for "elite" — consider the irony — apparently has no more than a handful of words at its disposal, which must be all these "leetle" people need to express their few elementary thoughts.

Merriam-Webster President John Morse, clearly a good boy who does as he is told, said, "It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other. ... This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."