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You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language, and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett, and Grant, I need some marital counseling. I hope you can help me out here.

Oh, no. You guys are so cute together.

Well, yes, for the most part, we are. But there's this one thing, this one, I know I'm not supposed to peave about language, but there's this one thing that my wife does. She'll talk about,

oh, yeah, the flashlight lives on that table over there, or the peanut butter lives in that

cabinet. You know, where's the peanut? Oh, it's in the cabinet where it always lives.

You're not fond of that verb to lived, meaning that's where it stays. That's where it belongs.

Yeah, not if it's an inanimate object.

Are you peaving? How dare you?

I know we preach against that all the time, but every time she says...

Sometimes you can't help it.

Well, of course, it's good-natured kidding, but I always make the argument.

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