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Blog This!

Calling all blogophiles! Martha and Grant discuss some of their favorite online reading. A caller asks if there’s a word for “fear of palindromes.” Grant explains the origins of the expression “do

Blog This!


Originally aired June 8, 2007

Calling all blogophiles! Martha and Grant discuss some of their favorite online reading. A caller asks if there’s a word for “fear of palindromes.”  Grant explains the origins of “don’t have a cow.” Martha rhapsodizes about her favorite collective nouns. Grant reveals the meaning of the slang term “hockey hair.” A caller ponders whether the word “insurgent” is taking on a new meaning. And Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a quiz about the initials “J.C.”
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