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[Re]Bracketing

You're Saying It Wrong by KMUW

Feb 7, 202635:13Comedy

We look at how much a word can change if we just give it a little nudge this way or that, which leads us into a discussion of how certain Arabic words made their way into English.

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[Re]Bracketing is an episode from You're Saying It Wrong by KMUW. We look at how much a word can change if we just give it a little nudge this way or that, which leads us into a discussion of how certain Arabic words made their way into Eng...

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Published Feb 7, 2026, 35:13 long, audio available.

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We look at how much a word can change if we just give it a little nudge this way or that, which leads us into a discussion of how certain Arabic words made their way into English.

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