Bottled Sunshine - 19 November 2018

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If you catch your blue jeans on a nail, you may find yourself with a winklehawk. This term, adapted into English from Dutch, means “an L-shaped tear in a piece of fabric.” And: What’s your relationship with the books on your shelves? Do the ones you haven’t read yet make you feel guilty — or inspired? Plus, we’re all used to fairy tales that start with the words “Once upon a time.” Not so with Korean folktales, which sometimes begin with the beguiling phrase “In the old days, when tigers used to smoke…” Plus, excelsior, oxtercog, wharfinger, minuend, awesome vs. awful, googly moogly, and eating crackers in bed. 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/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:18.5	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:19.5	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:21.0	Jan Betel Ellis of Chelan Washington teaches English as a second language and she also
0:27.8	leads workshops for volunteer teachers of English as a second language and she was trying to come up with some
0:34.3	unusual English words for common items because she thought it would be a good
0:38.8	exercise for the volunteer teachers to be confronted with those English words that maybe don't make sense, but sort of do in a sense.
0:48.0	So she went to our Facebook group and asked for examples.
0:52.0	And our listeners there were so helpful. group and asked for examples.
0:52.6	And our listeners there were so helpful.
0:54.6	They gave her a whole lot of words in that category.
0:57.8	For example, Winkle Hawk.
1:00.0	Do you know this word Winkle Hawk?
1:01.8	Uh, no. If you have a Winkle Hawk? Uh, no?
1:03.4	If you have a Winkle Hawk in your pants, it's an L-shaped rip.
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