Are You Annoyed by Embololalia? (minicast) - 18 June 2010

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🗓️ 18 June 2010

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Um, are you, like, one of those people who, um, get, like, really annoyed, by, um, you know, like, um, lots of filler words in, you know, like, conversation? If it's any comfort, there's a great term for this. Can you say "embololalia"? --A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: [email protected]: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2010, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	So are you, um, like one of those, um, you know, like people who, you know, like they use a lot of
0:58.0	filler words in like their conversation?
1:01.0	Well, if so, I apologize for that last sentence of course but here's
1:05.8	how I'm going to make it up to you. I'm going to tell you a really cool fancy term for all those
1:11.4	filler words and it happens to be a word that's a whole lot of fun to say.
1:16.0	Alan from Washington DC found us to talk about it.
1:20.0	I have a question about a word that I ran across that I'd never seen before and I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it but I'll give it a shot.
1:29.0	It's Embololoeia.
1:32.0	M. Lleia. In a more Lelia.
1:34.0	That's pretty sexy.
1:36.0	It's quite a word.
1:38.0	And I gather it's also spelled with an extra syllable in there, it sometimes is spelled Embololollea.
1:47.0	Embollea now where did you run across this I assume it wasn't the Washington
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