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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha

Barnin. When I was very young I happened across a copy of Reader's Digest and I

saw something absolutely mystifying. On two facing

pages there were all these little line drawings and under all those were these seemingly

unrelated capital letters separated by spaces.

The first row of letters read F-U-N-E-X.

Fun X, F-E-X, fun X, few-x, what in the world?

And right above those letters was a line drawing of a little old man sitting in a

restaurant talking to the waiter. But what was the connection? I puzzled over this for a long time and then I finally

realize that if you sound out those letters individually and if you sound like a little old man, then F-U-N-E-X is,

If you any eggs?

The guy wanted breakfast.

Have you any eggs?

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