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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. If you love words

and you love comic strips, then maybe at some point you've

wondered, is there a word for that little reflection mark that cartoonist used to make something

seem shiny? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like sort of a tiny window and they'll draw it on a

balloon or an apple and it makes the surface look curved and reflective. And as you know,

Grant, that question came up recently on our Facebook page.

Right.

Remember that?

Yes.

Matthew D. Littlefield said that he had once heard the word for that, but he was going crazy trying to remember it.

And he wanted to know if we could help.

And we did.

Did we not?

Yes, we did. You had the answer.

I had the answer, which is a Lucaflect. A lucaflect. L-U-C-A-F-L-E-C-T. And you don't hear that word that often, but it's used among cartoonists. It was one of several joking words that were invented by Mort Walker. He's the guy who... Beedle Bailey, and Lois. And in 1980, he came out with this book called the

Lexicon of Comicana. He invented a lot of words for those little things that you see in

comic strips. And some of those words have caught on, right? At least in the discussion of comics.

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