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You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

The funniest Twitter thread I've read in ages was started by Shannon Proudfoot.

She's a writer in Ottawa.

And she asked the world, what's the most mundane but

thunderous epiphany you've ever had, something so ridiculously dull or elementary

that still bowled you over when you figured it out.

Oh boy.

And there were a lot of really useful things like the fact that on a lot of

dashboards of cars it has the little picture of the gas tank and there's a little

arrow showing you which side the opening is on. See I knew you would know this already.

And did you know that a lot of elevators

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