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Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

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omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 172.

H.E. 0927, certificate number 28349.

The Cadaver Synod. Is it's Synod or Synod? It's definitely not the long eye. I think

Synod. Webster's prefers Synod with the Schwah to Synod.

Synod.

But shawas are tricky.

I'm getting yelled at by Jeopardy viewers.

It's not enough that I'm getting my pronunciation

yelled at by podcast listeners without a who don't own a dictionary.

Right, who hate you pluralizing the word LEGO. But I'm now, you know, now I'm doing it on national TV as a Jeopardy guest host this winter and it turns out, and so every time I say Appalachian, I get a whole lot of people telling me it's Appalachian. I don't know how they're maybe

they called their called their grandson and had him boot up a computer so they could

write that AOL email.

I have a friend who was born in the mountains of Tennessee and her parents named her Appalachia.

So I'm not Appalachia.

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