Lake Superior State University has released their annual list of Words Banished From the Queen's English. Among my favorites were "Companion Animals" and "bling-bling." Personally, I never, ever understood why people would use that last word, except to mock it.
Apparently the term was coined by rapper (Or should that be "rappists"? I wouldn't call them "musicians") BG and has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Just given its origins (just do a google search for the lyrics), I don't think I'd ever want to use the term, not to mention how ridiculous it sounds.
I've heard it used exactly once in real life, after I described how technical writers make $50/hour to a high school kid visiting BJU. He told me that if I was a technical writer, I'd be "blingin.'" No, it was a white guy who said it. That's the problem with rappers trying to make up their own language: