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Language That Jumped off the Small Screen

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams
Published November 11, 2020 at 12:20 PM CST
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From "yabba dabba doo" to "yadda yadda yadda," TV has had a decades-long influence on our language. Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, gives us a quiz on some of the catch phrases that have jumped from the small screen to our everyday lives.

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Kyle Kellams
Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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