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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Perfect sentences and slang that tickles your mind! A new book of writing advice says a good sentence “imposes a logic on the world’s weirdness” and pares away options for meaning, word by word. • Your musician friend may refer to his guitar as an ax, but this slang term was applied to other musical instruments before it was ever used for guitars. • We need a word for that puzzling moment when you’re wondering which recyclables go in which bin. Discomposted? Plus: tickle bump, dipsy doodle, dark as the inside of a goat, thickly settled, woodshedding, ish, a brain-teaser, and more. 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/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. 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.
0:03.6	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:06.1	I have a set of terms here from around the country for a particular thing,
0:10.7	and I would love it if you try to guess what it is.
0:14.0	Okay.
0:15.0	Okay.
0:16.0	Belly tickler.
0:18.0	Dipsy-doodle.
0:19.0	Johnny come lately.
0:21.0	Duck and dip. how do you do? Tickle bump? Yes ma'am,
0:28.9	kahoe. Or kahoo. How do you spell that?
0:32.3	Either way. Cahaho. K how do you spell that either way see a h o t oh that one's a ring and it's on
0:37.6	bells I don't know I want to say that it's some horsetail weeds or Queen
0:42.4	Anne's lace or something like that, right?
0:45.0	That's the tickle part.
0:46.5	I love your brain.
0:47.5	You're walking through it.
0:48.5	But that's not right.
0:50.5	No, but it's interesting that you got a jolt from the word kahot, which is French for jolt.
0:57.0	Oh, or kahoe. Oh, wait, is this all electric shock?
1:01.0	No, this is, according to the Dictionary of American Regional
1:04.6	English, this is an abrupt dip or bump in a road or path either naturally
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