This is an all ears English podcast episode 2565. Is English all Greek to you?

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Hello, Lindsay. How are you? Hey, Aubrey. I am happy to be on the mic today. How are you? What's going on?

Excellent. It's a beautiful day here in Arizona. And I am really excited to get into today's episode. This is really funny. Lindsay, do you speak any Greek?

Oh, Greek is one language I never got into. No, but it sounds pretty cool. I know. Alpha, beta,

gamma. I think those are the only Greek words, I know. I know. There's occasional words in English. Wait, Spanacopoda. Spanacopoda. What else? There's got to be some Eero. I don't know. There's got to be some food words. And I was in Greece. I loved Greece. I went all over the Peloponess, Delphi, Olympia, and Athens. And I loved Greece. And I loved Greek food. Oh, my goodness. It's so flavorful. They would have. It's so good. Baclavah. Yes.

Baclava.

And you could get a Euro like a lamb kebab or euro on the side of the road.

They would just like, you know, cut the meat off the lamb skewer. And it was so delicious. I loved it. Amazing. I went to a, this summer, I went to a Greek wedding in Boston, a Greek, like a very Greek family.

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