Transcript: Renee Montagne talks with author Susan Kelz Sperling who has written several...

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NEAL CONAN, Host: For those of you unprepared to embrace new ways to say `Be Mine,' NPR's Renee Montagne got together with author and lover of lost words, Susan Kelz Sperling. She's come up with some antique ways to say `I love you.'

SUSAN KELZ SPERLING, Author: You are my sweet muskin [sp]. You are my delicious little pulpetoon [sp], my delicious litte delicacy. My favorite flammick [sp], come dance the lustigallant [sp] with me. The flammick is a delicious desert, and a lustigallant is one of those dances that you can just imagine you picked each other up off the floor and threw each other around.

Let's nuddle [sp], let's ...

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