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Welcome back to Hashtag Sisters-in-Law with Joyce Vance, Jill Weinbex, Kimberly

at Kinstor, and me, Bart McQuade. Hope you've seen us all in our amazing Sisters-in-Law

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while I record this podcast. Lots of fun items there. Today we'll be discussing the future

of voting rights, the latest news out of the January 6th Committee, and the accelerating

state investigations of Donald Trump. As always, we look forward to answering your questions

at the end of the show. But before we get to the serious news, I actually have a pop quiz

for all of you. Mostly because I want to check myself. I think that there are a lot of

words in the English language that I pronounce wrong, and I know they're wrong, and I say

they're wrong anyway, because to pronounce them right just sounds wrong to me. Kim, you

got me thinking about this with the word often. We had a little conversation about that earlier.

Yes. There's often versus often. Will you remind us what your conclusion was there?

I was told that often is the correct pronunciation, that the T in that word is silent, kind of

like softened. I actually looked that up and it said until people could read, it was always

pronounced often. And then when people said, oh, there's a T in there. They started saying

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