Fred's Fun Fact: Kangaroo Word

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
French fund so much. Guys, have you ever heard of
something called a kangaroo word? I'd never heard of this before.
A kangaroo word is a word that contains its own

(00:22):
synonym Paulina. Yeah, it has its own cinnamon in it.
So a kangaroo word sounds like something that would be
spoken in Australia. It's actually a word that happens to
contain its own synonym synonym with the letters to spell
it in the correct order. Examples would include chocolate which
has the word cocoa, or masculine which has the word

(00:44):
male in it, or blossom that has the word bloom
in it, or chicken that has the word hen in it,
or deceased that has the word dead in it. I
get it, Like they're not necessarily right next to each other,
but they're in the right order within the word. Got
it a kangaroo word? There, he goes. See, now you're

(01:05):
going to be the most interesting person at the office today,
or people are gonna be like, why, why do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Because the kangaroo carried a baby inside the bron just
hit me?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
What pass? Whatever? You got more thread show next