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Crack out your ear trumpet and practice your happy face as Word of Mouth brings you another slice of lexical lushness. I'm your host, Byron Vincent. I own a thirty-year-old dictionary, the legs of a consumptive emu and a charmingly neurotic disposition. I'm very much looking forward to meeting you. Mild-mannered English teacher Mark Grist became a worldwide internet sensation when his rap battle against seventeen-year-old grime MC Blizzard got two million hits on YouTube. But how did this peculiar event and the ensuing media cluster whoops occur? Mark Grist is a word geek. The journey that this obsession inspired is weirder than Marilyn Manson in tweed flip-flops. One man's story about the importance of being passionate, and the surprising benefits of being able to recite the alphabet backwards. Here he is in action: