Bun in the Oven - 5 February 2018

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How many different ways are there to say you have a baby on the way? You can say you’re pregnant, great with child, clucky, awkward, eating for two, lumpy, or swallowed a pumpkin seed? • The story behind the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It’s older than the Mary Poppins movie. • Made-up foreignisms, like the one you eat with scrambled eggs: oinkenstrippen! 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 words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. On our Facebook group, Lori Stiers wrote,
0:39.2	My dad has been gone for a few decades now, but his silly way with words comes to mind often.
0:45.4	The other day at breakfast, I remembered his habit of making up fake words in other languages.
0:51.7	Bacon was referred to with a nice robust southern German accent as
0:56.2	oinkin strippin.
0:59.4	Oinkin strippin for bacon I love that. And her family also used the term
1:05.9	Hurtue. What was that? Hurt you? I know it sort of rhymes with virtue, but
1:10.1	Hurt you is if you have a bruise or a cut or something.
1:14.0	Something hurts you.
1:15.3	Oh, so I have a hurt you.
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