Remember those children's classics, the <i>Velveteen Rabbi</i> and <i>The Little Price</i>? The Twitterverse is abound with these books with a letter missing. And it turns out there's some pimping going on in our hospitals, but it's not what you'd think. Grant and Martha clear up the plead vs pleaded debate, touch on the use of product, and trace the history of <i>shambles</i>. Plus, a word puzzle with nursery rhymes, a map of regional grammar, and plenty of crazy vocab, from popinjays to the tee na na! <a href="http://www.waywordradio.org/missing-letter">See the full show notes at <i>A Way with Words</i></a>.
