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If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that word.

The one the pope had to apologize for using last week.

The current pope, the nice pope, the who am I to judge pope?

The being gay is not a crime pope.

That pope.

Someone ratted the pope out for using an anti-gay slur during a private, closed closet

doors meeting with 250 Catholic bishops in Italy last week. And yeah, I'm not even going to try

to say it out loud because I have a problem. If I see an unfamiliar word in print first,

I hear it in my head. And if I don't hear it in my first, I hear it in my head.

And if I don't hear it in my head, the way it's supposed to be pronounced doesn't matter.

How many times I hear the word pronounced correctly after that, doesn't matter how many times I'm corrected.

What I heard in my head when I read the word for the first time, that's how it's going to come

out of my mouth for the rest of my life. A Savage Lovecast listener who obviously knows what I'm

like called in with the correct pronunciation. Hi, Janet, everybody. The word is pronounced

for Chadjine. Bye. It was a valiant attempt to get out in front of my brain and one I very much appreciate caller,

but it came too late. I'd already read the word a dozen times in print already. It's

spelled F-R-O-C-I-G-G-I-N-E. And what I heard in my head, I'm actually kind of embarrassed to say, was Frogacino, like Frappuccino, made with frogs.

I realize it makes no sense.

It's F-R-O-C, not F-R-O-G, but my brain, like the Lord, works in mysterious ways. Anyway, the word

Rochaedgini means fagotty. The Pope was expressing his concerns about admitting openly

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