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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.

On our Facebook group, someone named Tola Big Boggi wrote,

I just wrote a chat to someone that struck me as funny.

It's really coming down up here.

Are there any other sentences like this where you use opposite words right next to each other,

like down up, it's really coming down up here

coming down up here so where are they they're like in the northern part of the

country and the rain is coming down it's really coming down up here so those two

propositions next to each other right are kind of So those two prepositions next to each other are kind of weird.

A little preposition pile up, yes. And then we heard from a lot of other people who were chiming in.

Somebody said, I can't stand sitting down for so long. Can't stand sitting down.

Or somebody else wrote,

turn left right here, and then somebody else wrote,

don't make the wrong right turn,

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