Deviled Eggs - 14 September 2020

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment almost 40 years after it was used in a commercial for Malt-O-Meal hot cereal. And: what do you call that room where the whole family gathers? The family room? The den? The TV room? Names for that part of a home go in and out of fashion. Also, if you’re suffering from writer’s block, try going easy on yourself for a while. Sometimes a writer’s imagination needs to lie fallow in order to become fertile again. Plus, a trivia test about domain names, criminently and other minced oaths, pure-D vs. pure-T, deviled eggs vs. dressed eggs, pixelated vs. pixilated, how to pronounce aegis, and I got the Motts! 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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0:15.2	Hi, it's Martha. Just want to say thanks to everyone who joined us for our first ever online video and to all who chipped in to help us reach our fundraising goal that day. You did it! We're so grateful! If you missed the video, can still see at any time at wayward radio dot o'rg slash lemonade that's wayward radio dot o'rg slash lemonade we had so
0:22.3	much fun making this one and the response was so
0:24.8	tremendous that rest assured there will be more so stay tuned. Now on with the
0:30.1	show. You're listening to Away with Words, The Show about language and how we use it.
0:35.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:36.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.0	Nancy Gabriel wrote to us from Ithaca, New York to say that her daughter was a precocious reader as a child.
0:44.0	When her little brother was two-ish and she was not quite six,
0:48.0	she said that her brother was a sonophigan.
0:50.0	Oh, oh, I got it. Do you know what it is? Yes, but tell me more about the story.
0:56.3	Okay, well her parents were baffled. Her daughter said that she called him a synophagon because he was being naughty.
1:03.2	She got it from one of her books I bet.
1:04.8	It's a word she learned from reading I bet.
1:06.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:07.8	Do you know the word?
1:09.2	Son of a gun.
1:10.2	Yes. She just put the stress in the wrong places.
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah, bless her heart.
1:17.0	Yeah, and then when Nancy's daughter was in second grade,
1:20.0	she and a couple of naughty classmates
1:22.0	went into their little town's corner store and the plan was for these two naughty kids to go into the store and swipe some candy and Nancy's daughter would stand watch outside.
1:32.0	Well, the little kids got caught, all of which Nancy found out because her daughter came
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