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Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolvedcast from Away With Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

What's the one word that comes to mind when you hear the name J.D. Salinter.

Masterpiece? Reclews? How about the F word?

I ask because we had a call recently from a listener named Mark.

Mark is a journalism teacher in Indianapolis,

and recently he'd read an article on a journalism blog

called,

What J.D. Salinger taught me about literary use of the F word.

That article in turn prompted a conversation with a colleague about a couple of linguistic terms describing how the F word is sometimes used.

Now one of those terms is in fix.

The other is T-M-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-M-S.

Both of them are pretty close in meaning. They have to do with splitting a word and sticking

in at least one extra syllable. So instead of hi-ho, you say hi-diddly ho, or fan-fricantastic. Of course, you say hi diddly ho, or fan freaking-tastic. Of course you can also insert the F word in there, right?

Now Mark called because he and his colleague wanted to learn more about these linguistic terms and the differences

between them. First we asked Mark what examples he'd heard. Here's what he told us.

One was the British use of bloody, how they might say abso bloody lutely right where we might say

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