Familiar Strangers - 6 June 2022

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If you take up texting and social media late in life, there’s a lot to learn! A twenty-something wants advice getting her dad up to speed on memes, Instagram, and animated images. Plus, when you’re on a long road trip, what do you call that one driver you keep passing on the freeway, or who sets the pace for your car mile after mile? Road buddy? Some call them Follow Johns. Plus, the linguistic reason why some people say “SANG-wich” instead of “SAND-wich.” It’s a mouthful — literally! And: thalweg, stick season, quare, jimmycane, the many Spanish words that derive from the Nahuatl language, camera and camaraderie, cada chango en su mecate, a puzzle all about the letter E, the connection between dollar and Neanderthal, umarell, and menos burros, más elotes. 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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0:20.6	You're listening to away with words, the show about language and how we use it, I'm Grant
0:25.6	Barrett.
0:26.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:28.3	But we've gotten a lot of reaction to our conversation with Haley.
0:32.2	She's the poet and Minnesota who wondered if there weren't more terms for the seasons
0:38.0	than just winter spring, summer, and fall.
0:41.4	The times between the seasons where something weather wise is happening, but it doesn't
0:46.2	really fit the other categories.
0:47.9	Mm-hmm.
0:48.9	And it turns out that there are lots of terms for those many seasons.
0:52.0	We heard from David Alice in Burlington, Vermont, who says in his state they also have
0:57.8	something called stick season.
1:00.4	And stick season is once the leaves have all fallen and there's no snow on the ground
1:05.3	yet, typically in November.
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