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You're listening to away with words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

I aspire to own an electric car someday, but I am still trying to wrap my mind around

the word frunk.

Yeah, frunk, frunk, you need to be a bug's have frunks.

Yes, yes, frunk.

I support Manto, as you suggest, of front and trunk, because that's where the trunks are

in electric vehicles.

And I read an interview in car and driver magazine with the woman who designed the front cargo

area for the Ford F-150 Lightning, Nancy Reppenhagen.

And she said, it just seemed like an efficient way to say front trunk, so it didn't bother

me, which makes sense to you and me Grant, because it's jargon and you've got to use it

every day in that job.

And so I can see why she wouldn't have been bothered.

And then I was thinking about the fact that of course in the UK, the trunk of a car is

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