Grimer Girl here, I'm Minion Fogarty and this week I have a correction, a quick and

dirty tip about writing for radio, a meeting middle about the word funnest and a featured

listener.

First, apparently I've been mispronouncing Adirondack my whole life and thanks to the listeners

who let me know, it's Adirondack, not a Drian DAC as I said last week.

The Adirondack Mountains are in New York State and are part of the larger Appalachian

Mountain Range and Adirondack Chairs supposedly were designed and first used Adilodge in

the Adirondack Mountains.

Next a listener named Tim wrote on Twitter that he had heard someone on NPR say that another

person, quote, often frequented, unquote, a venue and Tom thought the phrase often frequented

sounded redundant.

Technically, Tom is right, as a verb to frequent means to visit a place often, so the word

often is redundant.

It would be more correct to say that someone frequented a location or visited a place

often.

But I wouldn't come down too hard on NPR because audio is different from text.

People who are listening to the radio aren't always paying as close attention as someone

who's reading an article.

Researchers are driving or they might have the radio on in their house or offices background

while they're doing other things.

So it's not unusual for people on the radio to say the same thing multiple times in different

ways or to be redundant to make sure listeners get the point.

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