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And I'm Martha Barnett. You know that feeling when you're going to sneeze and you're going to sneeze and then you don't? Yes, I do know that feeling. Well, our listener, Carissa Bell, asked us that question on Twitter. Is there a term for that?

And the best we could come up with, Grant, was arrested sternutation.

Right, yeah. That works, right?

I think it does. Sternutation in English means sneezing. It comes from a Latin word that also gives us the word in Spanish and French and Italian for sneeze.

And I think it works.

Yeah, that's a really good one. Yeah. There are a lot of terms for this on Urban Dictionary,

for what that's worth. But the one I liked best was sneeze freeze. Sneeze freeze.

It works, right? It's like brain freeze, sneeze freeze? I like that. But we've all had that

feeling. The body wants to expel, but the body cannot expel.

Well, I have many more words about sneezing that I want to discuss later in the show.

So stay tuned.

We're talking about language here, words and how we use them.

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Hello, it's Vivian Luan.

Hi, Vivian, where are you calling from?

Montreal, Canada.

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I just found out that some of my friends have specific words for something that, for me, was just a

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