141: No Such Thing As Ancient Roman Pictionary

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 25 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the wisdom of Wisden, life in an elephant's footprint and why to strive for that 'classic poo look'.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.0	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:22.8	My name is Dan Shriver and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and
0:27.7	Aniches Innski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:32.2	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go starting with you,
0:38.1	James Harkin.
0:39.6	Okay my fact this week is that the word wow was popular in Scotland for 400 years before
0:45.4	it caught on in the rest of the English-speaking world.
0:50.1	You were so waiting for one of us together, weren't you?
0:53.2	Oh hang on, wow!
0:54.2	Wow!
0:55.2	I'll edit that in the right place.
0:57.6	Yeah isn't that crazy?
0:59.2	It's first use 1513, this is according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in a translation
1:05.3	of the Aniid by G Douglas, whoever that was.
1:08.7	Was it an original author of the book?
1:10.4	Yeah, you're right.
1:11.6	But G Douglas was a Scottish person and he said out on their 100th spirit wow,
1:16.9	thoucrayus and then the first time it gets used really in the English-speaking world is about
1:22.0	the 1890s and Burns uses it and a few other Scottish writers use it as well.
1:27.0	And it was in that context it's meant as an exclamation.
1:30.6	It looks like it doesn't it?
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