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Banished Words and Phrases

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published December 30, 2014 at 2:47 PM CST
Michelle O'Neill & Tagxedo

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. 

Credit Lake Superior State University
The 2011 list.
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.
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