Deviled Eggs (Rebroadcast) - 6 December 2021

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 52 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/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 a wait with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:04.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:05.1	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:06.8	Nancy Gabriel wrote to us from Ithaca, New York, to say that her daughter was a precocious
0:11.8	reader as a child.
0:13.6	When her little brother was two-ish and she was not quite six, she said that her brother
0:18.2	was a sonophagon.
0:19.2	Oh, oh.
0:20.2	I got it.
0:21.2	Do you know what it is?
0:23.2	Yes.
0:24.2	But tell me more about the story.
0:25.4	Okay.
0:26.4	Well, her parents were baffled.
0:28.0	Her daughter said that she called him a sonophagon because he was being naughty.
0:32.5	She got it from one of her books.
0:33.5	I bet.
0:34.5	It's a word she learned from reading.
0:35.5	I bet.
0:36.5	Yep.
0:37.5	Yep.
0:38.5	Do you know the word?
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