Everything is Iconic nowadays
A most "infuriatingly ubiquitous cliché" as Jonathan Meades described the use of this word in his brilliant 2009 article in Intelligent Life magazine. http://moreintelligentlife.co.uk/story/adjective-age . I read this at the time and it struck a chord because I was getting sick of the word cropping up everywhere. I had noticed that I was starting to use it more and more. You can't read a newspaper nowadays without seeing the word used incorrectly at least once. The Newcastle Evening Chronicle even described a local nightclub, LQ, as "iconic"! The Oxford Galleries building has been the site of a number of popular nightspots for many a generation and it is well known through the North-East, but it is not iconic - although to be fair, in one of its incarnations, it was called IKON. http://novumcastellum.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/end-of-era-for-newcastle-city-night-spot.html . It's sloppy journalism, but you can't exactly blame them when the...
