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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.

The other day on our Facebook page,

Jeremy Ben Stein shared a letter that I'd forgotten about that I like very much,

and I wanted to share with you.

Part of it, it goes like this.

I like words.

I like fat, buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady.

I like solemn, angular, creaky words such as straight-laced, cantankerous, pecunius, valedictory.

I like suave v words, such as Svengali, Svete, Brevura, Verve.

I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words such as splinter, grapple, josty.

I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip.

I like sniggly, chuckling words such as calic, gurgle, bubble, and burp.

Wow, who is that beautiful writer? That's really great, right? His name is Robert Peroche, or P-I-R-O-S-H.

And you can find the entire text of that letter at Letters of note.com, which we've discussed before on the show.

And this was a letter that he sent around to Hollywood Studios in the 1930s when he was trying to find a job.

He had been a copywriter at a New York ad agency, and then he changed his mind and headed to the West Coast.

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