Boss of Me (Rebroadcast) - 3 December 2018

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 52 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. 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 [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	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 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.
0:51.1	And one of the places I went was Mount Fylo, which is just south of Burlington.
0:56.8	And I'd been studying the maps and I was talking to somebody about how to get there.
1:01.1	And I said, I see it's near the town of Charlotte. she said no it's not Charlotte and I said
1:05.7	what do you mean it's Charlotte because it looks like the woman's name it looks like
1:09.6	the city in North Carolina Charlotte North Carolina North Carolina, and she said, nope, it's Charlotte.
1:14.8	Charlotte. Charlotte. Why is it Charlotte? Charlotte, I didn't believe her. I had to go ask other people because, I mean, who
1:22.4	pronounces it? Hazing newbie. Yeah. other people who pronounce it charlotte.
1:24.0	Yeah, but the people who pronounce it charlotte are in Vermont and the reason, little
1:30.0	history lesson here is that the town of Charlotte, Vermont was chartered in 1762, which was a year after the big wedding of King George the third to Princess Charlatte from she was of
1:48.0	German Charlatte but yeah spell the same way but the Vermonters have dropped the final syllable still though retaining some of it.
1:56.6	Yeah, some of them dropped the R too, but Charlotte.
2:00.0	Ooh, that's interesting.
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