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I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people in the world.

The kind of people who come across an unfamiliar word in a text and they just keep reading

and then other people like me who can't resist looking it up.

And I can't resist looking up these words because I found out all kinds of other

interesting stuff besides what the author was talking about. Yesterday I

came across the word Pegophilic. Do you know this word? So Phyllic

so Phyllic probably meaning love of or liking.

Yes, I don't know what Pago is.

P-A-G-O comes from the Greek word for ice or frost and so you can talk about

pegophilic animals like seals or certain kinds of

birds. Okay. They're pegophilic. So when they get a cool rum drink they want ice in it.

Something like that. But the fun part about that for me was that it sent me down this

pegophilic rabbit hole where I also came across words like pegophagia.

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