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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. There's an old proverb that goes,

Beloved children have many names. But I think an even more appropriate proverb would be beloved pets have many names because

there's this real creative exuberance that people who live with pets tend to have when we name our animals.

I'm sure you've had this experience.

Yeah, we don't name them once, right?

We keep naming them and renaming them and renaming them until they're unrecognizable and we've been

talking about that on our Facebook group and there were some great examples there.

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