You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

I thought I knew a lot of words, but I've been learning so many from our listeners lately.

We asked you to write a favorite word in big letters on a piece of paper and send us a snapshot of yourself holding it up.

And we're posting those on our word wall at waywardradio.. And Grant, the fun part is, once I start researching those words, I find so much great stuff. There was tons of stuff in there. I didn't know. For example, one guy on our word wall was holding up a sign that said epalpabrit. A palpabrit. I had to look that up. I did too. As in the Mona Lisa is a palpabrid. Right. No eyebrows.

Yeah. There's a word for that. And how about Menehune? I learned that from another fellow holding up a sign that said Menehune in Hawaii. Those are little forest dwellers who come out at night and play tricks on people. Oh, part of the Hawaiian culture.

Yes.

Very good.

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For me, the other fun thing about the word wall at waywardradio.org is the fact that you start looking at these folks and you just wonder the stories behind them.

Why does this particular person choose that particular word?

Why does that mean something to them?

So a story about a person choosing a word that itself has a story.

And that in a nutshell is what we do here, right?

It totally is. And we'd love to talk with you about language, 877-929-9673, or you can send your questions and email to words at waywardradio.org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi. My name's Allie, and I'm calling from Mancato, Minnesota. Hi, Allie, welcome to the show. Hi, Ellie. What's up? Thank you. Well, I just had a question. I have been saying to some of my coworkers at work when I ask me a question to say that I don't care. I'll say, it's no skin off my nose. And I have no idea where I picked it up. I know

that I've known about this for you since I was really young. So it could have been from a cartoon or whatever, but I have no idea where it came from. And I just started getting so curious about it. You said, it's no skin off my nose to mean I don't care. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah, what are they asking you?

Well, I manage, like, cashiers at a grocery store.

Mm-hmm.

So let's manage, like, cashiers at a grocery store.

So they'll say, hey, do you care if I get a drink? I say, well, let's no skin off my nose. Like, I don't care. We're not busy, you know. But then I was like, I don't know what that really means. So maybe I should stop saying it. No, you're good.

Are you a boxer, Alley?

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