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Thank you. at today. CoolZone Media. Hello, Molly here with a little minisode.

It's the end of the year, and that's got me thinking about trying to wrap up loose ends.

Earlier this month, I answered some of your questions,

but I left out something important.

Sometimes you guys answer my questions.

I get so many fascinating little tidbits from you all,

and I'm not lying when I say I really do read all of your emails.

I read all of them.

And I appreciate every person of Greek ancestry who wrote in with their own family stories about the nickname Yanaki,

which is just Greek for Little Johnny.

And I was very intrigued to find out that Brian Soralt, pronouncing his name Soralt and not Sorow, maybe more than just the American tradition of mispronouncing

anything foreign, because there is a particular linguistic tendency to intentionally

bastardize the pronunciation of anything French in certain parts of New England because of local animosity towards Quebec.

And several of you wrote in to tell me that Frank Smith setting his lawn on fire is apparently not that weird.

And burning dormant grass in the winter isn't uncommon in rural areas.

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