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Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Welcome to another podcast edition of Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

My lovely co-host Martha Barnett is out there doing

her durnest to effect the use of affect and effect. She has great affection for fixing

the defect, but I'm not sure she's affecting much effect. Today, some listener mail.

Sarah from Wisconsin writes to ask about Nozy Parker,

that's someone who has an eye on other people's business,

the kind of person who goes through your medicine chest.

Though I guess modern

nosy parkers sneak looks at your email. Well Sarah I found nosy parker

stuffed deep in the orange encophiles. That's origin unknown. I'll spare you the false trails and tell you that the best

we can come up with is that more than a hundred years ago, the common English surname Parker

was added to Nozy to create a kind of Joe Below, a generic snooper if you will. The other theories lack

evidence and this one is the simplest so I'm going to go with it. For what it's worth

I found an 1890 use of Nozy Parker in the British

Belgravia magazine which is earlier than the date given by every

other word origin authority so hurrah for primary research but boo for getting

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