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Today, in honor of Guy Fox Day next week,

we're going to talk about Guy, and some of the other words we use for men.

And then, in honor of Halloween looming before us on the calendar,

we're going to look at the origins of the words for places we lay people to rest like crypts.

But before we start, I got interesting comments from listeners

about weak word forms from last week's segment on why it sounds weird to end a

sentence with a

sentence with the weak form of you, I'm going to give it to you.

And then the other described his grandparents having a dialect

where it was normal to use the weak form of two at the end of a sentence, as in where you go into.

And I'm actually surprised that I didn't get comments about all the times you can end a sentence with a

contraction as in I'm going to the concert but she can't because I usually get those

too. But what all these things have in common is that we said we were explaining why you can't end a sentence with a contraction or a weak form of a word in some contexts.

And then also, because this is English, there are even exceptions to those contexts and

dialects that don't follow the standard rules. So yes you were absolutely right

that you will hear people say I'm gonna to give it to you and where you go

into. But there are still some general rules about strong and weak word forms and

critics that explain why we don't usually hear things like,

Come to the place, I'm.

With Guy Fox Day just around the corner,

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