Coast is Clear (Rebroadcast) - 20 May 2019

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🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In the military, if you’ve lost the bubble, then you can’t find your bearings. The term first referred to calibrating the position of aircraft and submarines. • The phrase the coast is clear may originate in watching for invaders arriving by sea. • A dispute over how to pronounce the name of a savory avocado dip. • One more place where people are starting sentences with the word so — during prayers at church. • Also: elbow clerk, smitten, Tennyson’s brook, fussbudget vs. fussbucket, clinomania, and 50 k’s south of Woop Woop. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.2	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:05.3	Grant, I have a joke for you.
0:06.8	Yes, please.
0:07.8	Ask me if I'm a tree.
0:08.8	Are you a tree?
0:09.8	No.
0:10.8	Is this more anti-Wits jokes?
0:12.2	Yes. The German anti-wits jokes? Yes, the German anti jokes.
0:14.0	Okay.
0:15.0	Yes, this is an example of an anti joke.
0:18.0	We talked about these a couple of weeks ago, which opened the floodgates.
0:22.0	Oh, yes. Email, phone calls, Facebook. of weeks ago which opened the floodgates.
0:22.6	Oh yes, email, phone calls, Facebook group everywhere.
0:25.9	And that one about the tree came from Aaron in Indianapolis,
0:28.7	but we got a ton of these.
0:30.9	Did you enjoy them?
0:32.0	Yes, I did actually.
0:33.0	People's enthusiasm is pretty clear, particularly the ones that they've been holding on to for a very long time and I can't wait to share.
0:39.0	Well, yes, exactly. We got another one from Ray-Carlberg in San Diego and he was talking about the fact that when he heard us talking about these things he was instantly transported back to childhood.
0:52.0	He said I could clearly remember this exchange with my sister, she would have been in high school and I was in fifth or sixth grade.
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