Drinking Terms (minicast) - 6 Oct. 2010

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🗓️ 6 October 2010

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An interview with slang lexicographer Paul Dickson about drinking language and his book "Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary."--A Way with Words is supported by its listeners. Drop a few bucks in the guitar case: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: [email protected]:United States an Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Site: http://waywordradio.org/Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradioCopyright 2010, Wayword Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for a way with Words is provided by Mozy Pro online backup.
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0:13.2	Welcome to another mini cast from Away with Words.
0:21.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:22.0	Today we're talking to lexicographer Paul Dixon.
0:24.8	Paul has recently published a brand new book called Drunk the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary,
0:29.4	but he's also known for his Baseball Dictionary and his Dictionary of the space age. Welcome Paul.
0:35.0	Thank you, Grant. I'm looking here, you've got more than 2,900 synonyms for tipsy, drunk, and so forth.
0:42.0	How did you collect these? The real reason I collected
0:44.6	them. I guess that's really before the how is I always wanted to be in the Guinness Book of
0:49.8	World Records and years ago I decided I you started looking at it as a problem to be solved and I at
0:57.3	that time in order to get in there you had to do things like you know push a peanut
1:00.8	across Iowa with your nose or eat a bicycle or something which you're actually things that people have done
1:06.1	and then i started looking at with the help of thread mission of of of
1:09.8	Marion Webster were talking about it one day
1:12.4	he said why don't you look at language? I looked at language and
1:15.1	language was interesting or lexicography because they had things like the longest acronym and then
1:20.5	there was a, the word with the most meanings with
1:23.8	set which the OED I think had a hundred and it was a hundred and 37 different
1:29.4	meanings down and verb so I started looking at these things I said you know that will be at the one they
1:34.6	don't have here is sentiment and so I gravitated quickly I looked at other things
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