English Down Under - 21 Sept. 2009
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 21 September 2009
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | you're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:36.5 | And I'm Martha Barnett and here's a cool word for you. Grant, what is a kenga rooster? |
| 0:42.4 | That's a... Grant, what is a kenga rooster? |
| 0:43.0 | That's something created on the island of Dr. Moreau. |
| 0:47.0 | Right? A cross between a kangaroo and a rooster? |
| 0:50.0 | Uh, not quite. |
| 0:52.0 | Not quite. Not quite. It is a person from Australia. Isn't that fabulous? I love it. |
| 0:58.0 | A kangor rooster. Yes, I found this word in the Australian National Dictionary and this is such fantastic news |
| 1:06.5 | for language lovers. |
| 1:07.5 | It seems that Oxford University Press has been publishing this dictionary since 1908 and to celebrate this 100-year |
| 1:15.5 | milestone it has made the dictionary available for free online. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh that's fantastic I have a hard copy of it and it's a historical dictionary, right? |
| 1:25.6 | They provide some background on the history of the words. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, it's just lovely, but it's so much fun to have it on the internet. |
| 1:31.8 | It's my new internet time waster. |
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