Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.

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Best time to eat cereal.

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

I don't know what around is.

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today, episode number 47, a new installment of linguophile,

wherein we discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

Hey, Mikey. Hey, Bob. How you doing? Splendid, thank you, and your own self. I am great. I'm great. We already have Ben on the line. Hey, Ben, how you doing? I'm doing fine. Thanks for having me back. Sure. So, Ben, I wanted to tell you about a letter we got about our Snark episode of Linguophile. This was the episode wherein you gave us the very interesting but frustratingly

incomplete history and etymology of the word snark and its tie-in to the word NARK, N-A-R-K,

and N-R-C. you remember this, I'm sure.

Of course, yes, the tangled web of snark. So a woman from England wrote in to say that there's a word in British English, grass, that is used to describe a police informant or a snitch, as she put it. And she wondered whether the word grass had any connection to NARC,

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