One of my English teachers in high school wanted to expand our vocabularies. To that end he would pass out worksheets with 50 or 60 words and their definitions. Then as a drill he’d have us pronounce and use the word in a sentence. We’d just go through the list one word per student up and down the rows until we’d finished the list. One day we were doing the drill and I was wool gathering (as usual) when my turn arrived. Luckily I figured out where we were in the list and pronounced my word, super-fluous, much to the merriment of the rest of the class.
There is no truth to the rumor that the Jane Fonda Work Out tape was the first hot yoga session.