Cracking the Omicron Code
Slate Debates
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This week our guest is alex bellows, who has a book out called the language lover's puzzle book. Later we'll try to stump amanda ripley, host of slate's advice podcast, how to with some language puzzles of our own. We got an email about pronunciation. Is it a amacron or omacron? I mean, i've been saying it's acron. It's neither odd nor wery. What do you fot do you say amacron? Amacron? It's kind of like amacron, but it's not amacron. Can you just say it really slowly so we all can get on the same page?"
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