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to be protected if something goes wrong Welcome to another summer mini-cast from Away with Words.

People do all sorts of things to language.

They make mistakes, they make assumptions, They learn things incorrectly.

Sometimes they like to fool around with it and spit out the odd absurdity just for a laugh.

Ken called us with a strange singular form of a word used by a client.

He thought it was wrong. He was pretty sure it was wrong. But how can you get away with correcting the speech of a client? Well, you don't. You call away with words instead.

Once upon a time I worked on a website project for a small financial services firm,

and I don't know, there were four or five guys we worked with and when they would talk to

themselves and with us they would always talk about indices you know like the plural of

index right but when they would talk about the singular, they always said indice. I don't think I

ever heard them say index. Oh really? It was always indicep. And indices. So how would they use that in a sentence?

Well you know half of the time I didn't know what they were talking about so uh...

Oh because it's all a financial jargon and you didn't. Right, right. They would say, oh yeah, yeah, you know, this product is attached to this particular

industry. Really? And so, so Ken, did you loudly correct them and point at them with your indissie finger?

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