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Listeners have once again sent us some great questions, and we have answers!
- Why do we TALK SHIT and not SPEAK SHIT?
- Do we KEEP OUT, or STAY OUT?
- Why are so many acronyms three letters long?
- How do we break young people out of the prescriptivist mindset?
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- Why do we TALK SHIT and not SPEAK SHIT?
- Do we KEEP OUT, or STAY OUT?
- Why are so many acronyms three letters long?
- How do we break young people out of the prescriptivist mindset?
- Isn’t “folk etymology” just… etymology?
- Can you think of any anagrams that are also synonyms?
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