Feeling Gruntled - 17 February 2014

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🗓️ 17 February 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hyperbolic Headlines Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity!!!! Or maybe not. You’ve seen those breathless headlines on the internet, like “You Won’t Believe What This 7-year-old Said to The President!” They’re supposed to lure you to another webpage–but now there’s a backlash against such clickbait. Plus, the most beautiful word in the Icelandic language. And if being disgruntled means you’re annoyed, does being gruntled mean you’re happy? Plus, gleeking, balloon juice, belly stretchers, scared vs. afraid, peruse, belting out a song, acknowledging the corn, To Whom It May Concern, and that awkward silence in elevators. 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 [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:32.0	And I'm Arthur Barnett. it. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:33.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:34.0	Not long ago, the residents of Iceland were asked what the most beautiful word in their language was.
0:39.0	And this was a contest put on by the University of Iceland and the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.
0:45.0	They asked thousands of Icelanders to submit their choices and they narrowed down the entries
0:49.6	to some finalists and then people voted on them. The finalists included the word for
0:54.5	enthralled which pardon my Icelandic but is hufunken. Nice and the word for
1:00.8	oh well which is yay, but the winner the most beautiful word in the Icelandic language
1:06.7	supposedly and again my apologies anybody who speaks Icelandic is
1:11.0	Leo's mother something mother somebody's lion's mother Icelandic is
1:14.0	something mother somebody is lion's mother
1:15.0	very close what is that it literally means light mother
1:18.0	and it's the Icelandic word for midwife
1:21.0	oh so you're first the light that first comes to you. Yeah, yeah isn't that beautiful and and I read that the other day and I was so taken with that because in Spanish if you give birth you give to the light literally.
1:35.0	Oh very clever yes that is very beautiful. I was worried that you were going to say
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