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Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Welcome to another podcast edition of Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

My lovely co-host Martha Barnett is off settling the debate over the pronunciation of

F-O-R-T-E meaning point of strength. She's decided that everyone who says

Forte will live west of the Mississippi and everyone who says Forte will live east of the Mississippi.

Too bad, she says, if you say both and end up straddling the river.

One of the most popular phone calls we've ever taken was from Tom and Mount Vernon, Indiana. Early this year he

called ask about a word he'd forgotten, a nautical term related to the major

points of the compass. He couldn't for the life of him remember it, but swore he knew it decades before.

We suggested a lot of things, Ert, Pixus Nautica, Rum, that's R-H-U-M-B, and Cardinal Points, and Tom said no dice to all of them.

A bunch of you called and wrote to suggest other terms, Asamuth, Binacle, boxing the compass,

compass rows, cross- digogram flinders bar gimbles

inclinometer pelaurus principal points rows of winds and zodiac points. So we called Tom a second time and tried those

suggestions on for size. Tom said, no way, Jose. And the emails and the calls kept coming, most of them suggesting words we'd already tried

and a few suggesting that maybe Tom was pulling our legs.

But there was one letter from Michael McGucken and Phoenix that made us perk up.

It contained a word that we hadn't tried.

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