Darwinism and the Dictionary (minicast) - 20 Oct. 2008
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
A Way with Words
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2008
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Everything is fuel for your creativity with the Lenovo Yoga laptop series. |
| 0:04.3 | From the people you meet to the creators you follow, it all comes together with |
| 0:08.0 | Lenovo Yoga. |
| 0:09.0 | Plus, you get a 50 pound travel voucher and a shot at winning an awesome trip to New York and a Motorola |
| 0:14.6 | razor 40 Ultra. Check out the Lenovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives at |
| 0:19.7 | Lenovo.com slash Yoga. limited time only terms and conditions apply. |
| 0:23.8 | Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Welcome to another mini-cast from Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:39.0 | The British publishers of the Collins Dictionary have announced 24 words on their endangered species list. |
| 0:46.5 | Their words like Villepend, to treat with contempt, and knitted, that's NITID, which means glistening. |
| 0:55.4 | The editors say if they don't see these words being used in everyday speech and writing, |
| 1:00.0 | they'll drop them from the next edition. |
| 1:02.7 | They've even set a deadline, February 2009. |
| 1:06.7 | But they're also offering the public a chance to vote |
| 1:09.4 | for which words should get a reprieve. It's a great publicity stunt, but I have to say that the |
| 1:16.0 | thought of any word being voted off the lexical island makes me wince. I understand of course |
| 1:22.3 | that culling the herd is a necessary evil. |
| 1:25.0 | Consider the economics. |
| 1:27.0 | More words mean more pages and more pages mean more cost per unit. |
| 1:32.0 | As more new words come into being, the obsolete ones have to make room. |
| 1:37.5 | Still, I was aghast to realize that on the list was one of my favorite words ever. The word is cadusity, Cadusicity, cadusity. It means perishability, transients. More specifically, it means |
| 1:55.0 | the infirmities that accompany old age. |
| 1:58.0 | Caducity comes from the Latin word cadre, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Way with Words, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of A Way with Words and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

