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I'm Binyon Fog disabilities

talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff. It's time for the quarterly listener

question show in which I answer a bunch of your questions. First, here's Tracy.

Hi, Nyan. This is Tracy from Atlanta, Georgia. I love your podcast and I appreciate everything

you share with us. I've always wondered, is there a word to describe the opposite of right?

As in a right piece of fruit. I often find myself saying this is not right yet, as in the bananas

aren't ripe enough to use yet. But is there a word for that? Thanks so much. I know if there's

an answer, you'll find it for me. Bye. Thanks, Tracy. I had to think about this a bit. Green

works in some cases. For example, I'd talk about green bananas and fried green tomatoes,

but it doesn't always work. A granny Smith apple is green, whether it's ripe or not, for example.

According to Edamonline, people have been using green this way since the 14th century,

and it's also where we get the idea of inexperienced people being green. But when green doesn't

make sense or doesn't sound right, the only alternatives I can think of were unripe and immature.

Thanks for the question. Hi, I just started listening to your podcast

and I love it. I was outside on my porch on Sunday afternoon doing, or Sunday morning,

doing a crossword puzzle and I came across a clue which was Barry the blank. So of course,

I wrote in Barry the lead, LED, but the answer ended up being LED. So I would love to hear because

they're both right, technically, which one we should be using in our modern day writing. And once

again, I love your podcast and I will definitely write you an apple review. Great question.

For those of you who don't know, the lead is the opening of a story and it's usually supposed

to be the most important part. It's a common term in journalism and writers are told not to

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