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🗓️ 7 July 2025
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0:00.0 | The five-pound meal deal from McDonald's. |
0:02.7 | Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets, and a medium soft drink for guess what? |
0:08.4 | That's right, five pounds. |
0:11.3 | It's not called the five-pound meal deal for nothing. |
0:14.8 | From 11 a.m., not available on delivery. |
0:16.8 | Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply. |
0:18.3 | Participating in restaurants, subjects of availability. |
0:20.3 | You're listening to Away with Words, this show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
0:25.2 | And I'm Martha Barnett. In an earlier episode, we talked about items found in old library books, |
0:31.9 | like somebody stuck a four-leaf clover in there and forgot about it or an old receipt. And after that, we heard from Mack McClelland. |
0:40.3 | He's a volunteer at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, Vermont, evaluating |
0:46.0 | donated books for fundraising sales. |
0:49.1 | And Mack emailed us a photo of his all-time favorite find. |
0:53.0 | And it's a brief note on a sheet of binder paper, |
0:55.9 | and it reads, Dear Tooth Fairy, I lost two teeth by accident. And I was wondering if I still get a |
1:02.9 | prize from Carter. And Grant, you've seen this. It's the most adorable little note. |
1:09.4 | With all that little kid handwriting and all those little kid misspellings, oh. |
1:14.3 | Yes. |
1:14.8 | That just breaks the heart. |
1:17.3 | Does he get a prize? |
1:20.0 | And of course, it took a while to decipher it because he spelled tooth fairy T-U-S-E-F-A-R-R-Y and prize was P-R-I-S. |
1:32.5 | And it's painstakingly written in pencil. |
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