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I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Grant, your family likes Mexican food, right?

And sometimes you like to cook together.

Yes, please.

Right?

So let's suppose that you're making a big pot of chili.

Sure.

And you've decided that you need some more of that earthy brown powdered spice. Yes. And so you look to your wife and you say, honey, would you please hand me some? Oh, no. You're going to make me say it. C-U-M-I-N. Is that what you say? See you in my in? No, I say cumin. Cuman. Cuman. But I think there's a problem with that.

I've had a problem with that word all my life. I think I've said it all different ways. What do you say? I say cumin. So we're talking about this spice. Yeah. It dominates like burritos and tacos and that sort of thing. Yeah. You do put it in chili. Yeah. I use Tex-Mex chili recipes. Okay, all right. Yeah.

But the dictionaries have a different pronunciation.

I know.

They say... I use Tex-Mex chili recipes. Okay. All right. But the dictionaries have a different pronunciation.

I know.

They say common.

Who else says that?

Nobody but the dictionaries.

Well, I have seen it on cooking shows, but I'm pretty sure they looked it up too.

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