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you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Welcome to another summer mini cast of A Way With Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

You know how Grant and I treasure all of our dictionaries and reference works like the Dictionary of American

Regional English, but there's nothing like hearing reports from listeners about their real life

experiences with words out there in the wild.

Take Fred, a traveling preacher.

He called us recently to talk about an odd word that he'd encountered in the hills of Appalachia.

I'm calling you about dollars,

bode chicks.

What?

When I moved to Eastern Kentucky, I learned what I thought was a new word,

and now I have discerned that it must be a regional word.

The word is dead or dealer, I'm not sure which would be the primary word and which would do the derivation but it simply means

to be check.

Now how are you spelling that, Fred?

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