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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's Mr. Schnoose, the manager of the Fluesville factory, bringing you Flues mania, the fun-filled Flues challenge for kiddos of all ages. |
0:23.0 | Oh, you know that I absolutely love trivia. |
0:27.1 | It's one of my most favourite things. |
0:29.9 | Well, to be honest, it's a tie between trivia and the cold, empty eyes of factory workers in overtime. |
0:37.1 | I'm sure it just means they're very focused. |
0:39.6 | But alas, today is a trivia day, so let's get stuck in. |
0:50.6 | Today, Fluesmania trivia is all about words like the ones I'm speaking right now, and just then and currently. |
1:01.0 | Here's the thing. Language is utterly bizarre. The words thought, through and Toro look so similar. but they mean three completely different things. |
1:14.3 | You can use words to describe your feelings, elation, scepticism, |
1:19.7 | and whatever hot feeling it is in my guts that builds every time I'm around Waffle and Martha. |
1:26.1 | No Bob Destation manager, it's not love. |
1:29.5 | It's irritation, that's it, intense irritation. |
1:33.8 | So, to celebrate how wonderful language is, we're talking all about words. |
1:41.2 | And I'm going to test your knowledge on words that may or may not in fact exist. |
1:47.8 | You might even learn something, you know that? |
1:51.3 | So pay attention. |
1:52.6 | And as a legal disclaimer, I'll say you probably won't learn anything, but there's no harm in trying. |
1:59.6 | Anyway, I've got some wonderful word questions coming your way, kiddos. |
2:05.6 | So fasten your seatbelt and here we go. |
2:09.6 | Wordy word question number one. |
2:16.6 | How many words are added to the dictionary every single year? |
2:21.9 | Is it A, 4,000, B, none? |
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