Above Your Raisin’ - 2 February 2015

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🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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There’s a new kind of hamburger menu that involves pixels, not pickles. It’s that little stack of horizontal lines in the corner of a webpage that you click to see more options. You might use a hamburger menu while webrooming–that is, when you go home to buy a product online after inspecting it in a store. Also, a clever new option for an emoticon that means “Oh, well!” It’s called a smugshrug. And: what hospital workers mean when they say a potential patient is showing a positive “suitcase sign.” Plus, French dictation contests and Chinese dictionary races, pigs for “cops,” historical trivia limericks, the military roots of flak, and the subtle difference between talking and speaking. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	you're listening to a way with words the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.3	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.3	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.9	It seems like only yesterday that the word selfie suddenly sprang on the scene, and all of
0:40.6	sudden we saw it everywhere and wondered if it was going to stick around and of course it is.
0:45.3	It's got great staying power and it's spawning other words like Droney.
0:50.0	Droney, this is a picture you take of yourself with a drone.
0:52.4	Exactly.
0:53.6	I've also seen Healthy, which is a self-portrait of your hair,
0:58.0	and Belfi, which is one of your butt,
1:00.5	but I don't think that those have staying power but one that I came
1:03.7	across recently that you've probably seen as well too Grant is selfie stick oh yeah
1:09.4	these are all over Asia this was one of my big words for 2014 actually. Yeah. Selfy stick.
1:14.5	Which is also called a monopod. Oh nice. You've seen that it's it's one of these
1:19.7	telescoping sticks that you use to hold out your phone so that you can take a better
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