Hacker News with Generative AI: Tradition

2025 Banished Words List (lssu.edu)
Lake Superior State University (LSSU) proudly reveals the 2025 edition of its Banished Words List, a quirky tradition that dates back to 1976, when former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and his colleagues delighted word enthusiasts with the first “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness”.
Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day (twz.com)
A longstanding tradition allows watch standers to use poetry to log their ship's activities in the wee hours of a new year.
The great German land lottery (npr.org)
Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a land lottery dating back centuries.
Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021) (chemistry.berkeley.edu)