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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.

Grant, I wonder if you know what these four

words have in common. Leveret, Elver, spat, and smolt. Are these geology terms? I'm thinking of

smolt and smelt and leveret sounds like leveret, which is a jokey name for

rocks that you leave right there. Leaver right there. But I don't know the middle two. Okay.

Baby animals of some kind? Baby fish, baby turtles. Yes. These are all names for baby animals. And elver is a baby eel. A smolt is a baby salmon. A spat is a baby oyster. And a leveret is a baby hair.

Okay. More bells are ringing now. They're distant in another valley, but it's all, it's all, yeah, I did know these

terms at some point. Yeah, yeah, there are terms that you come across every once in a while and then

you just forget them, because when are you ever going to talk about, you know. But I learned the one for

the oysters and Joseph Mitchell's famous essays in the New Yorker about oysters and clams in the New York Harbor.

Oh.

But tell me why you're thinking about baby animals.

Well, I'm thinking about baby hairs, H-A-R-E-S, in particular, because I just finished a whole book about a baby hair.

And it's a fantastic book.

It's the book that I'm pushing on to all my friends.

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