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Grant Barrett is off trying to remember the kind of September when he was a young

and callow fellow like a couple of weeks ago maybe. Anyway speaking of remembering remember when you were growing up and you wanted to lay claim to something,

say, maybe the biggest piece of chocolate cake on the plate or your favorite seat in the family

car? What did you say to claim that item?

Well one have you called us about that recently?

Hello this is Randy and Albuquerque. Hi you Randy. What's up?

Hi Randy what's going up? What's up?

I have a question about some common slang, I think, probably.

My wife is from the Cincinnati area originally, and I'm from the southwest and we often see words

that we interpret differently or hear new words and one that came up was the word

Finney to indicate Dibs if you would had sibs on the last piece of cake or whatever.

They said, I finny the last piece of cake, which means I, it's mine.

And we wondered specifically whether this was German origin because there's a lot of German people in Cincinnati of course and my wife's families of that stock.

Right, very much so.

It's a good theory, but the evidence shows that it's probably just related to a very archaic form of English that we just don't really use anymore.

And it turns out that Finn is a way of claiming dibs and marbles when you play the kids game of marbles and there's all this

weird childhood jargon about it and Peter and I own a opi. Have you ever heard of them?

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