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

Catch My Fade - 22 December 2014

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

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If you’re sending out party invitations, what’s a sure-fire way to get hold of everyone? Email? Snailmail? Facebook? Texting? Twitter? Or a plain old-fashioned phone call? Different folks have different communication preferences, and accommodating all of them can be a challenge. Also, when someone says “Catch my fade,” is that good news or bad? And: what to do if your cheese is blinky. Plus, pipe down, cease and desist, peach and bungalow, rush the growler, pagophilic, a famous insult from Hollywood, and a grandma’s edgy phrase for washing up in the sink. 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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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

0:33.0

I'm Grant Barrett.

0:34.0

And I'm Martha Barnett.

0:35.0

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people in the world,

0:38.0

the kind of people who come across an unfamiliar word in a text

0:42.0

and they just keep reading and then other people

0:44.9

like me who can't resist looking it up.

0:47.8

And I can't resist looking up these words because I found out all kinds of other interesting

0:51.8

stuff besides what the author was talking about.

0:55.0

Yesterday I came across the word Peg

0:58.0

Peg. Do you know this word?

0:59.0

So, Phyllic probably meaning love of or liking.

1:02.0

Yes, liking. Pago don't know what Pego is.

1:03.8

P-A-G-O comes from the Greek word for ice or frost.

1:08.6

And so you can talk about pegophilic animals like seals or certain kinds of birds.

1:13.4

Okay.

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