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Words That Describe Themselves

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams
Published November 24, 2020 at 1:56 PM CST
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Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, is back with another obscure category of language: autological words.

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