Feeling Gruntled (Rebroadcast) - 6 July 2015

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🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 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 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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0:35.0	Not long ago, the residents of Iceland were asked what the most beautiful word in their language was.
0:41.0	And this was a contest put on by the University of Iceland and the
0:44.2	Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. They asked thousands of Icelanders to
0:49.1	submit their choices and they narrowed down the entries to some finalists and then people voted on them.
0:54.9	The finalists included the word for Enthrold, which pardon my Icelandic, but is Hoofunken.
1:01.7	And the word for Oh well, which is yeah, yeah, but the winner, the most beautiful word in the
1:07.6	Icelandic language supposedly, and again my apologies, anybody who speaks Icelandic, is Liosmuller.
1:15.0	Something mother, somebody's an lion's mother?
1:17.3	Very close.
1:18.3	What is that?
1:19.3	It literally means Light Mother, and it's the Icelandic word for midwife. Oh so you're first the light that first
1:26.1	comes to you. Yeah isn't that beautiful and and I read that the other day and I was so
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