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Welcome to the Summer Podcast

Podcast edition of Away With Words from KPPS in San Diego.

I'm Grant Barrett.

While the show is on summer hiatus and my lovely co-host Martha Barnett tries to explain to Yankees where the

S and half the vows in Louisville have gone. I'm going to take this time to read

some mail from our white-hot inbox. Jeff Harris writes from Camloops British

Columbia to ask about the word agio, agio.

It's a great Scrabble word, but not in his dictionary.

Well Jeff, if I were to make the short hop over the border from Seattle to Kamloops and exchanged my American

dollars for Canadian loonies, I'd pay an Agio, which is a currency exchange fee.

By the way, if you're curious like I am about the city named Kamloops,-A-M-L-O-P-S, the Canadian Bureau for Indian Affairs

says that it's from a Shushwop Indian word meaning the meeting of waters.

The city sits at the junction of the

north and south Thompson rivers. Kamloops does not mean the meeting of frogs

no matter what Wikipedia says. A bunch of you wrote and called about the

expression bleeding edge mostly pointing out that it's just a variation on leading edge.

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