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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Surf’s up! When surfers describe the waves as going gangbusters, it’s a great time out on the water. But why that word? Plus, a thesaurus of flavors serves up delicious writing about the taste of foods and spices. And speaking of flavors, the history of vanilla is anything but bland. When the vanilla flavor was introduced to 16th-century Europeans, it was considered a rare delicacy. So why does the expression plain vanilla mean unexceptional today? Also, funny street names, hoorah’s nest, mooch, a quiz chock-full of assonance, traffic-light sundae, lawn jobs, sleigh riding vs. sledding, burn my clothes!, copperosity, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, and more. 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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0:30.1	You're listening to away with words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant
0:34.6	Barrett.
0:35.6	And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant, we asked our listeners for funny street names that
0:40.3	they know of and boy did they respond.
0:42.8	Oh boy, howdy did they. Martha, you and I have a lot of trips to make.
0:47.2	A lot of selfies to take under street signs, clearly.
0:51.5	If you look at the map with all the pins in it, it looks like it needs an acne cream.
0:55.0	There are pimples all over the place.
0:56.7	There are a lot of destinations and these are funny. This is some funny stuff.
1:02.0	Yeah, I think our first stop should be Tallahassee. Scott Higby wrote from Tallahassee
1:07.4	to say that there they have both a Frankie Lane and a Lois Lane.
1:12.6	Oh, that's wonderful. Bring your comics, listeners music.
1:15.6	Yeah, apparently there are Lois lanes in Huntsville, Alabama and Southfield, Michigan as well
1:22.3	and probably lots of other places. Larry Johnson wrote, many years I lived in
1:26.8	Batesville, Arkansas, where there was an intersection of Gwynne and Barrett.
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