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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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0:29.8 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language, and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
0:34.9 | And I'm Martha Barnett. The new movie Dream Horse tells a true story |
0:39.5 | that takes place in a tiny Welsh village. On a whim, the local bartender, played by Tony Colette, |
0:46.5 | dreams of breeding a championship racehorse. So she buys a mare and she persuades her neighbors |
0:53.2 | to chip in with a little money each week to |
0:55.8 | support her efforts. Now, a horse like that is a long shot to win anything, but you can imagine |
1:02.9 | why there's a movie about this true story. Because they lose, right? Well, Grant, you'll just |
1:10.4 | have to see it. It's pretty predictable, but if you do see |
1:15.7 | this movie, you may wonder about a word that turns up when the local townsfolk meet for the |
1:21.7 | first time to decide whether to go for this seemingly impossible goal. Eventually, they all agree that they're not doing this for |
1:30.0 | any prize money. They're doing it for the hoil. And if you go to look up the word hoil in the |
1:37.0 | dictionary, you may have trouble finding it, but here's the key. Here's what you have to remember. |
1:42.6 | This story takes place in Wales, |
1:45.0 | and the word they're using is spelled H-W-Y-L, Hoyle. Nice. W as a vowel. |
1:53.1 | W as a vowel, as you see in Welsh. The term is hard to define, but I looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, |
2:00.6 | and the definition there was |
2:02.0 | an emotional quality which inspires and sustains impassioned eloquence. Also, the fervor of emotion |
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