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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.

I was in New York City recently, and I was walking out of Penn Station when this building across the street caught my eye.

It was this stately, neoclassical structure with these rows of tall Greek columns.

And above them there was this freeze running the length of the building.

And the freeze was inscribed with these big capital letters.

But what they spelled out gave me a little jolt.

I don't know.

It was just so grand.

I expected to see Latin.

But the inscription said, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift

completion of their appointed rounds. And of course, Grant, you know what building that is.

That's the Green Lantern headquarters.

No, no, that's the U.S. Postal Service.

Yes, that's the James Farley Post Office there.

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