A chance conversation at a New Year's Eve party has turned into decades of priceless publicity for a small college in a far corner of Michigan.
Lake Superior State University has just released its 40th annual list of "words or phrases banished from the Queen's English for mis-use, over-use, and general useless-ness."
Herb Trix reports.
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Credit Lake Superior State University