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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Buffet Flats (minicast)

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2007

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Do you know what a “buffet flat” is? Is it A) a type of shoe you wear to all-you-can-eat dinners, B) a lull in economic growth predicted by Warren Buffet, or C) a squalid apartment found in the Rocky Mountain States? Find out when Grant gives you the whole megillah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Engineered to do it all. That's Way With Words.

0:42.8

I'm Martha Barnett.

0:44.0

And I'm Grant Barrett.

0:45.0

Hello, you have A Way With Words.

0:47.0

Hi, this is Patty Parsons.

0:48.0

I'm from Denfer and I get to hear you on Podcasts.

0:51.0

All right.

0:52.0

Welcome, Patty. Hello.

0:53.0

Every time I hear your show I like come up with also to new questions and I heard your show where you did

0:58.0

the word buffet as in a piece of furniture and I remember when I moved to Denver in 83, all these apartment buildings had

1:05.5

signs out front that say buffet $500, buffet, $700, and we didn't think they're all selling

1:10.7

furniture.

1:11.7

Or breakfast. Or breakfast.

1:13.0

So we finally decided it meant studio apartment kind of thing or a place maybe only big enough

1:20.6

for a buffet or something.

1:22.9

But I've never had seen it any other place and now it's really decreased the usage here.

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