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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. We're always excited when somebody teaches us a new word.

And I just learned a new one from Alex Wrigal.

He wrote to introduce us to the word anapodotan.

Anapotan.

Let me see if I can break that down.

It sounds Greek.

Anna means it's a negative.

It means not, right? Pod probably has something to do with base or a foot and a ton not sure. What are we talking about here, Martha? Well, we're not talking about pajamas without feeding them. Now, Annapodotan, and maybe I should spell that, A-N-A-P-O-D-O-T-O-N, is a term of rhetoric, and it comes from a Greek word that actually means without a main clause.

And it refers to the first half of a proverb or a saying where you don't bother to give the second half because you figure the listener already knows it.

For example, if I were to say, birds of a feather.

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of, birds of a feather.

And then in my mind, I finish and go flock together.

Exactly. That's a perfect example.

Or say, if I said when in Rome.

Ah, yes. Do as the Romans do. Neither one of us has to say it because we're both thinking it.

Great minds think alike.

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