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Grandpa Pudding Brains: “Most people don’t know dumb has a B”

Next week’s breakthrough: why “knife” starts with a K.

Jason Weisberger
May 23, 2026
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In the middle of calling someone stupid, Donald Trump took a detour into what appeared to be a fresh personal revelation about basic English spelling, carefully explaining that “dumb” contains a silent B as though this was a major scientific breakthrough.

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