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Welcome to another mini cast from Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

We're still on our summer break, but we're also still absorbing and responding to all your emails and phone calls which are still arriving in their usual unstoppable stream.

By all means you can still let us know what

you'd like to hear on our brand new episodes coming up in the fall by dropping us a

line at words at wayward radio.org. Drew called us from Lasseter, Alabama.

He's noticed that one of his fellow teachers

tends to write words that should be plural as singular.

For example, she might say, I graded all 50 tests, T E S T, instead of I graded all 50 tests, T E S, S.

Why does she do that?

She's not stupid, right? As Drew finds finds out it's not a simple mistake to make. It

comes from certain interesting features of Southern English. I was called to ask you

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