Burn Bag (Rebroadcast) - 19 March 2018

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The slang coming out of Victorian mouths was more colorful than you might think. A 1909 collection of contemporary slang records clever terms for everything from a bald head to the act of sidling through a crowd. Plus, how to remember the difference between CAV-al-ry and CAL-va-ry. And: what’s the best way to improve how introverts are perceived in our society? For starters, don’t bother asking for help from dictionary editors. Also, collieshangles, knowledge box, nanty narking, biz bag, burn bag, yuppies, and amberbivalence. 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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0:36.1	When I think of the term Victorian England, I often think prim and proper, but boy, they had some great slang
0:42.0	back in those days.
0:43.5	I've been going through a 19009 volume called
0:46.7	Passing English of the Victorian era,
0:49.4	a dictionary of heterodox, English, slang, and phrase. And there's such great slang in here for
0:55.0	example do you know what mind of the Greece means mind the Greece don't know it's what
1:00.7	you might say when you're in a crowd and you're trying to get by
1:03.2	Molling to the Greece. Oh weird. Or how about this one butter upon bacon?
1:07.6	Oh this is one one good thing after another? Well it's sort of like
1:11.8	extravagance. I've seen it in a lot of books
1:14.8	from that period meaning just something that's too extravagant. It's butter
1:19.2	upon bacon, you know. And I guess today it would be somebody wearing too much makeup or their prose is too flowers, just too too much.
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