Grant, I have one more how cold was it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Grant, that folk etymology was so preposterous.
How preposterous was it?
Even Proto-Indo-European denied paternity.
Oof.
Oh, that’s terrible, Martha.
This is why we need everybody else to chime in.
I’m just, I’m at the bottom of the barrel, y’all.
Help us out here.
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