Grammar Girl here, I'm in Yon Fog, Fog, Your Friendly Guide to the English

language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

Today's show is almost all about funny words.

First, we'll look at weird names for things like Dinkus and Glabella.

Can you guess what those are? And then with some help from listeners I dive deep on whim-wam for a

mucket and buried in the middle I have a quick tip about when to capitalize mom

and dad. But before we get started I have a correction from

last week's piece about the power of plural pronouns such as we and us. At one

point we said these pronouns are second person pronouns, which of course isn't right.

They're first person pronouns.

Duh.

We corrected the audio in that show right away, so it's not anymore and thanks to Grammar Palusian Saab for quickly

and kindly pointing out the error.

Have you ever been delighted to learn a quirky name for something like the

tittle, the dot over the letters I and J, or the Grolix, the string of symbols

that represent swearing in comic books?

Sometimes these words sound positively made up, which in a way they are,

all words were made up at some point, but some words sound as though they were created by Dr. Seuss or

Lewis Carroll springing forth from a fictitious world.

Sometimes these names have

names have multiple meanings that people are more commonly familiar with

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