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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, and here's a word I have my eye on. I've seen it popping up occasionally, usually in the British press.

And that word is bin influencer.

Who is a bin flancer? What are we talking about here?

Well, a binfluencer is the first person on your street to put the trash in the recycling bins out.

You know, according to which ones are supposed to be collected that way so that everybody knows and sort of follows suit.

So much room for mischief there just to put them all out or the wrong ones out just to make the whole street.

Well, you know, I mean, we have one on our street for sure. I'm sure you do as well. And this term has also been applied more generally to someone who encourages recycling and minimizing trash. I really like it. I have come around on the word influencer. I didn't

like it at first, but I'm starting to dig it. But I really like Binfluencer because I know the one on

our street. Well, you know that I also track new language. And Martha, you also know that I worked for a long

time in information technology. But let me ask you if knowing these things about me, if you and I worked for, say, Google and we were talking about a lake house, what would you think we were talking about?

A lake house?

I would think that was what you bought with all your earnings.

Like a secluded cabin overlooking Lake Tahoe or something.

Were you escaped on the weekends?

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