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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 Do You Call Crayons?

"Pencil colors" is a term used to refer to colored pencils in school. In Louisiana and Mississippi, it's more common to call the writing utensils "pencil colors" The word comes from French because crayon doesn't mean English crayon in French. A calc is when a word is moved from language A to language B.

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