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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 13 July 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. |
| 0:10.1 | Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket. |
| 0:12.9 | Geographical and other restrictions. |
| 0:14.2 | Min spend £60 on charge to apply. |
| 0:15.8 | Discount available on food, new customers only, max saving £20.000. |
| 0:18.7 | Terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:20.3 | You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:24.3 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:25.9 | Lawrence Peter Barra, otherwise known as Yogi Berra, is widely regarded as one of the greatest |
| 0:32.3 | catchers in baseball history, but he's also famous for coming up with all kinds of quips and goofy statements |
| 0:39.5 | that make you stop and think. Like, for example, when you come to a fork in the road, take it. |
| 0:46.3 | Or this great advice, never answer an anonymous letter. Or, of course, famously, it's deja vu all over again. |
| 0:58.3 | These statements are so closely associated with him that they're sometimes called yogiisms, |
| 1:03.3 | but was yogi the first guy to ever say them? |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, probably not. |
| 1:08.4 | Probably not. |
| 1:09.9 | And a great place to investigate those kinds of claims is the website, quoteinvestigator.com. |
| 1:16.7 | It's run by linguist Garson O'Toole, who tries to chase down the origins of these kinds of quotes. |
| 1:22.8 | And so often he finds that there's really nothing new under the sun. |
| 1:27.1 | I mean, the ones that I |
| 1:27.9 | mention the, when you come to a fork in the road, take it and never answer an anonymous |
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