This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 981. Did you hit a snafu? Learn a new English acronym and where it comes from.

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dot com forward slash subscribe. Have you ever heard a native use the acronym snafu?

Do you know where it comes from and how to use it?

Today we show you how to take a supernatural and native acronym

and make it part of your English toolbox. Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

How's it going?

Hey Michelle, not too bad, not too bad.

How are you?

I'm good, but the other day I was taking the bus back from Washington DC and

oh my gosh there was a bit of a snafu with traffic it was crazy and it took me like an hour and a half longer than usual to get home.

It was so frustrating.

Wow, that's awful.

Well, you know, they do say that the Beltway area has the worst traffic in the country, maybe second to LA.

Right, I know. I was thinking LA is really famous for that too. Yeah. Oh, God, it was horrible.

Have you had any transportation snafoos lately?

Um, let's see. Often when I try to go down to my parents' beach house on the weekends, I leave

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