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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 have three words that have something in common. I love you. No, what are they? I know. What are they?

They are flummox butterfingers and the creeps. Flummox

butterfingers and the creeps they were all coined by the same person how did you know I guess I don't know who it is

Are you serious? Is it all I was gonna give you the hint that they were all it's a baseball writer

Well, no no it's and and I shouldn't say

coined because we're not sure that they're coined but the first citation for

them is it Shakespeare it's not Shakespeare. It's another author a little later. I don't know.

Prolific dude in the Victorian.

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