This is the Allusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, try to get the linguistic swing to

go the full 360 degrees.

Coming up in today's show, Happy Face, Heart Heart, Alien Smiling Poo.

To warm up, here's some word history.

Listen to Warren requested the history of the word Tordry, meaning cheap and tacky.

It originally meant a silk necktie for women, then known as Tordry Lace, a contraction

of Saint Audrey's lace, which was a somewhat low-quality neck ribbon sold in E.D.

Cainbridge's at their annual fare for their patron saint Audrey, who was also the patron saint

of Thrunken Plains, because she died of a throat tumour which she considered divine punishment

for her preference for wearing jould necklaces and other neck ornaments.

Good etymological fun, thanks Warren, without further ado, on with the show.

There's a specific order.

The face will always come first.

So that'd be like the nomative now, coming first in the episode.

Yeah, that's kind of setting the state, saying, this is, I'm a person, I'm going to be doing

the following actions.

And then the objects come after that.

Some things the order is dictated by like the gun, whatever's being shot by the gun has

to come to the left of it, I think.

Okay, so to be in the line of five, that's the gun.

Yeah, otherwise you look like you've not been paying attention.

They say your ability to learn new languages, to finish is with age and by 15 you're pretty

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