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I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

And Grant, do you know the word annuant? Annuant. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. And Grant,

do you know the word annuant? Anuant. No, A-N-U-E-N-T, something like that?

There are two ends. They're A-N-N-U-E-N-T. Annu-E-N-T. Annuant. Something related to

years or rings? I don't know.

Those are very good guesses. What are they? They're not correct. No.

But I'm going to get back to that in a second.

The reason that I'm talking about this word is because it's one of many very cool, obscure words that I have discovered and started learning thanks to the omnificent English dictionary in limerick form.

Oh, the old we deal. Yeah, the O'I-Dilf.

Yeah, the only deal.

So this is the project where they're taking every headword from the Oxford English dictionary, only unofficially, and making a limerick for all of them.

Yes, yes, and it's crowdsourced.

Anybody can contribute limericks to this.

So they're limericks that illustrate the use of these words.

So annuant actually has to do with, well, let me read you the limerick that Chuck Fulker's wrote for it.

Oh, bobblehead doll, you're so annuant. We got takeout Chinese in the vanuent. As I stepped on the clutch, you were nodding so much that you fell into

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