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Dill Pickle, Fustian, salvo, chaf, pocket knife,

imagine if the dictionary were not in alphabetical order.

Fervid, abscess, menagerie, peneer, feckless, abeyance,

It would be difficult to look up a word.

At least any word you're actually looking for, although you'd be introduced to a lot of new ones.

While you might expand your vocabulary this way,

finding a particular word would be kind of frustrating.

Without order, our lives would be...

Random.

But maybe our lives already are.

And that's it for our show.

We'd like to thank Gary Neidharoff, Barbara Vance, and Jay Wiler.

Putting the ending of something before the beginning is more transposition than random, wouldn't

you say?

Hello, my baby, hello my honey, hello my rack, I'm gal.

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