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You're listening to Away with Words.

I'm Martha Barnett.

And I'm Grant Barrett.

These days, I'm spending a lot of time

playing games on my mobile phone, Martha.

I noticed that.

A couple of episodes ago, I invited our listeners to play me on the game WordFude.

This is a Scrabble-like game for Android.

And boy, howdy.

I've played a lot of games.

But it occurs to me that there's a kind of language that's becoming reinforced in my vocabulary. I'm playing words that I wouldn't really use in my normal writing. Such as. Well, QI, which is Chi, right? This is an idea for a Chinese life force, right? Right, right. I play that all the time because I got to get rid of the cue. Why don't you just play IQ?

Can you do that? No, because it's an initialism. It's not actually accepted in the dictionaries. Oh, darn. Because it's this closed vocabulary. Okay. And so there's other words like QAT, which is a kind of narcotic leaf chewed in the Middle East cut. Okay. Right? And these these words let me get rid of that cue because I don't

want to be stuck with that cue. It's hard to get rid of a cue. No, who wants a cue? Occasionally you can play Aqua. Z's got the same problem. ZA is probably the word most often played with Z. Z.A. Yeah, short for pizza. Zah. Do you want a slice of Zah, right? That's legitimate for Scrabble, huh? It is, yeah. So occasionally they'll allow these odd words in that you really don't use or you don't use anymore. Like, have people said Zah since the 80s? Probably not. In any case, the thing that I wanted to tell you, Martha, is that I now have a second Scrabble-like game on my phone. Oh, no. This is a bigger one. It's Words with Friends, which is also found on the iPhone as well as now on Android. And I'm not pimping for them. I'm just saying that I'm on there under the username Grant Barrett, two R's two T's, and you can play me if you're like. Oh my gosh.

I promise to play at least once every three days.

Okay, I'll take my turn.

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