This episode is brought to you by Meta for Work.

It's not just sci-fi anymore.

Virtual and mixed reality are transforming how business works.

Architects can use mixed reality to walk through buildings that aren't even built yet.

People from around the world can meet up in more immersive ways,

working shoulder to shoulder in virtual spaces

to get real work done.

And all sorts of professionals are getting hands-on training

and safer, more cost-effective virtual environments.

Meta for work. Work smarter, closer, safer, together.

Visit forwork.metta.com to learn more.

You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

I learned something from our listeners on our Facebook group the other day.

There was a post from Lisa Weingart, who was talking about how she was helping her fourth grade daughter

editing her homework and she said that her daughter's very clever teacher assigns a page of

reading on a social studies topic and then they have a list of questions regarding

grammatical errors asking how to combine two shorter sentences in a compound sentence,

and that kind of thing.

And so her daughter looks up to her and says,

is or a fan boy?

...