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Mignon Fogarty Mar 6

Some people call these the same thing, and other people have different names for them — and it can depend on where you live!

That's just one of the cool things you'll learn this week from my chat with Joan Houston Hall, former editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (often called DARE).

WATCH: https://youtu.be/F6dYztdHnG8?si=fbziIA7D-tXJBrwQ

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/1165/transcript

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

#GrammarGirl #podcast

(I call them both a spatula.)

Pink! Polonium!

@grammargirl Middle school home ec teacher trained us to call the one on the right a “turner.” Four decades later, I still can’t get myself to do it.

Left: Spatula
Right: Spatula