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🗓️ 17 November 2013
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0:25.0 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. |
0:31.0 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
0:32.0 | And I'm Martha Burnett. |
0:33.0 | A listener named Danielle tweeted us a question the other day. |
0:36.0 | She wanted to know if it's true that they call it the mall |
0:40.0 | because you don't go to one store you go to the mall. |
0:43.0 | Ah, funny joke. |
0:45.0 | Funny joke. |
0:46.0 | Yeah, funny joke and not an entirely unreasonable question because there are some words in English that come to us by mis-changes of ways? |
0:54.4 | Yeah, yeah, by misdivision like Apron used to be Naperin and Naperin became Apron. |
0:59.6 | But the mall did not come from them all. No, there's a park in London, right? Yeah, yeah an alley an alley right so this is St. James Park where they used to play a game called Paul Mall that involves a mallet so |
1:14.4 | mall here is related to the word mallet and the Paul part referred to the ball |
1:19.8 | yeah it's from Italian Paula Malio so there was this place in this park that was a long lane or a row of trees I guess or open space where you would play this game Paul Mall. |
1:30.3 | Yeah, it was a long alley actually. And so the name of the game was transferred to the park. It was a long alley actually. And so the name of the game was transferred to the park. |
1:34.0 | It was abbreviated to the mall. |
1:37.0 | And when people started building these places intentionally |
1:39.0 | where people might promenade or walk to be seen, |
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