Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to another playoff episode.

Cody, how you doing?

Man, it's, we are full force in the playoffs.

We have our first, our first winner in the first round,'s very exciting I'm not sure like if

people had filled out the betting markets like who they thought would get out of the

first round first I don't think many people would have picked Minnesota but

here we are.

And I don't know, there's a lot of other rounds

that, or games or series that have to wrap up.

Did you know, Ben, that the plural of the word series is series? Like, maybe that's obvious obvious but in my mind I always wanted to say

serieses but then it just it's not right to me it's not right. This is a

conundrum a young writer faces that I grappled with many years ago and you just have to accept that

series and series are the singular and plural of that word.

I'm more fascinated by rays and rays being antigms of each other but sounding exactly the same.

Do you raise and raise?

Oh, yeah.

See what I did to you?

Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly.

Didn't um wasn't there a dictionary update when they said that literally both means like

figurative and literally like if you look it up those are the two definitions that's

that's unacceptable it literally does

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