Diamond Dust - 17 January 2022

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs — a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic. And a mom says her son is dating someone who’s non-binary. She supports their relationship, but still struggles to use their preferred pronouns in a way that feels natural to her. Plus, A Way with Words is a show about language, right? How the word “right” contains a multitude of meanings. And: echar un coyotito, voluntold, autological words, stay interview, eyesights and farsees, a brain-busting quiz about hidden words, nieve penitente, cutting cots, and rhyming ways to say a casual goodbye in other languages, like the Dutch one that translates as “Bye, umbrella!” 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 way with words to show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm worth a bar net in
0:06.8	English if we're saying a casual goodbye. We might say see you later alligator after a while crocodile
0:13.3	And it turns out that there are
0:15.9	Lovely rhyming goodbyes like that in several different languages. For example in Spanish you might say chalpiscale
0:24.1	by fish
0:26.9	And in Dutch you say Ayu powder plu which oh I hear the French in that yeah, goodbye umbrella. Yes
0:36.0	That may have been popularized by a Dutch sportscaster Ayu powder plu and in French. There's one that goes a plu
0:42.9	Ston libous
0:44.9	See you later on the bus
0:47.3	But one of my favorites is in Swedish it goes taco hay labor pasté. Thank you. Goodbye liver pate
0:57.1	That's really good. You know, there are more verses to the see you later alligator after a while crocodile
1:02.7	But they don't make any sense either. There's one like
1:06.3	If you beg said the egg
1:10.3	Yeah, in a few said the stew. Well, they're all food related. I don't know why well
1:15.9	I know that there are lots and lots and lots of these and we would love to hear about them from you
1:20.8	So send them to words at waywardradio.org or if you want to talk about any aspect of language, give us a call
1:27.6	877-929-9673
1:31.0	Hi there. You have a way with words
1:33.3	Hi, this is Linda Wheatley. I'm calling from Greensboro, North Carolina
1:40.0	Hi Linda welcome to the show
1:42.0	Well, there was a
1:44.0	Thought or a word a couple words if I can just share them
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