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2: Mailbag of Iconoclasm
Time to get to this Mailbag!
- Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'?
- When people write the date as '7 April' or 'April 7', do they also say it that way?
- Why do we add 'up' to verbs like 'cut up' or 'eat up'?
- Why do some words have opposite meanings?
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Time to get to this Mailbag!
- Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'?
- When people write the date as '7 April' or 'April 7', do they also say it that way?
- Why do we add 'up' to verbs like 'cut up' or 'eat up'?
- Why do some words have opposite meanings?
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