
62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)
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The Oxford Game
Our patrons on Discord are having lots of fun proposing their own pairs of words. One is proposing a toast and the other is hot buttered toast. Are they related or are they not? Well, I seem to recall some sort of thing where people, like the bread of the table was used in some kind of custom or cultural practice. Ben thinks perhaps they are related. Oh, no. Mmm. Thoughts? Nah. Yeah. Sometimes it's a yeah. And look, let's work for you. Win, win.
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