Go Bananas - 12 September 2022
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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One of our australian listeners is rob mc cayhill, and he lives in cairne's queensland. He shared with us a little poem that he learned from his grandfather. And i'm going to try this. I read it as elven was one race horse. You think there might have been two race horses, one named 11 and another named 22. So sometimes a number is a name for a thing, and someo a number counts the thing. It reminds me of something that you you learn when you first start statistics: Sometimes numbers count and sometimes they can be counted.
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