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Take the Longcut

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A San Antonio, Texas, caller wonders: What’s a good word for a shortcut that ends up taking much longer than the recommended route? You might call the opposite of a shortcut a longcut, or perhaps even a longpaste. But there’s also the joking faux-Latinate term circumbendibus, first used in 17th-century England to mean “a roundabout process.” This is part of a complete episode.

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