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A Single Len
October 3, 2009 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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An ophthalmologist in Arcata, California, is puzzled by the way some of his older patients refer to a single lens. Several of them call it a len, not a lens. This gives the hosts a chance to focus on what linguists call back-formations. This is part of a complete episode.
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