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Salad Days (Rebroadcast) - 3 October 2022

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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What Is Gumshoe?

Gumshoe comes from the fact that shoes are sometimes made with gum rubber. It's also been applied to not just detectives or police officers but prowlers and thieves. Most often I think you hear it in connection with those detective novels.

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