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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Grammar Girl here. I'm In Jan Fogarty and just a heads up that today's show was originally |
0:09.9 | released back in November 2024 as a bonus segment for people who support the show, |
0:15.4 | The Grammar Pellusians. If you like what we do every week and want to support the show |
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0:25.8 | Visit quick and dirty tips.com slash bonus to learn more. |
0:30.2 | And now, on to the show. |
0:32.6 | Greetings, grammar-palusians. |
0:34.3 | I'm here with Fiona McPherson, senior senior editor at the Oxford English Dictionary, |
0:38.6 | working on new words. We just finished wrapping up talking about beer words for the main episode. |
0:43.7 | And now we're here to have some extra fun. I think I want to start with the quiz. You had all |
0:49.4 | these beer words from the OED, and I thought, well, I wonder what's in the urban dictionary. And I can tell |
0:55.4 | you there aren't many that we can share. Okay. Yeah. You know, family friendly, not so much. But there |
1:02.7 | were two that we could talk about. So the first one was biramid. What do you think of beer amid is? |
1:14.4 | I'm going to say it's a pyramid of beer. You know, |
1:19.2 | you sometimes get those like champagne ones, the sort of cascade down. I'm imagining that, |
1:25.4 | but pints of beer. Yes. Actually, well, it's, um, it's the empty cans. Oh, it's the cans. Okay. So after consumption. |
1:27.8 | Okay. |
1:28.2 | You know, like college kids make the, yeah, but yeah, really good. And actually, I'm sorry for putting you on the spot here too. Like, this is, I'm hoping the listeners can play along and also, like, guess what it might be. Yeah. And the next one, the only other one that we can talk about. |
1:26.8 | That is family friendly. |
1:27.7 | It's family friendly. |
1:28.3 | Was, um, it might be. And the next one, the only other one that we can talk about, that is family friendly, |
1:47.3 | was beer muscles. So what are beer muscles? Okay. I can think of a couple of things it could be. |
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