Boss of Me (Rebroadcast) - 19 June 2017

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today's bestsellers, and read one from the 1930's instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just because a city's name looks familiar doesn't mean you should assume you know how the locals pronounce it. The upstate New York town spelled R-I-G-A isn't pronounced like the city in Latvia. Turns out lots of towns and streets have counterintuitive names. Finally, why do we describe being socially competitive as "keeping up with the Joneses"? The Joneses, it turns out, were comic strip characters. Also, sugar off, filibuster, you're not the boss of me, and lean on your own breakfast. Listen to all episodes for free: https://waywordradio.org/ Support the show to keep episodes coming: https://waywordradio.org/donate Your responses, questions, and comments are welcomed at any time! https://waywordradio.org/contact words@waywordradio.org Listener line 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the US and Canada Text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673 Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Meta for Work.
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0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.0	And I'm Martha Barnett. I just got back from Vermont where I had a wonderful time speaking at the
0:39.5	Community College of Vermont in Winooski and also at the Burlington Book Festival.
0:45.0	And you'll also not be surprised to learn Grant that I did a lot of hiking while I was there.
0:51.0	And one of the places I went was Mount Filo which is just south of Burlington and I'd
0:57.0	been studying the maps and I was talking to somebody about how to get there and I said I
1:01.6	see it's near the town of Charlotte and she said no
1:04.1	it's not Charlotte and I said what do you mean it's Charlotte because it looks like the
1:08.6	woman's name it looks like the the city in North Carolina Charlotte North
1:12.1	Carolina and she said, nope, it's Charlotte.
1:14.8	Charlotte. Charlotte. Why is it Charlotte? Charlotte?
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