Flop Sweat - 24 July 2017

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🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Gerrymandering draws political boundaries to tip elections towards certain political parties. Originally, the word was pronounced “GARY-mandering” with a hard “g.” But why? And why did it change? • Mark Twain and Helen Keller had a devoted friendship. When he heard accusations that she’d plagiarized a story, Twain wrote Keller a fond letter assuring her that there’s nothing new under the sun. • A well-crafted subject line makes email more efficient. One that contains just the word “Question” is almost as useless as no subject line at all. • Plus, flop sweat, vintage clothing, the solfège system, on line vs. in line, groaking, the Hawaiian fish dish called poke, and around the gool. 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/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	Every once in a while I'll find out that a word that I think I've understood all this time
0:41.6	I had wrong, a word or a phrase phrase and the term that I'm thinking about this time
0:45.6	that I just learned about is flop sweat. Flop sweat yeah what did you think?
0:50.8	I thought it was a flop sweat was when you're really
0:54.2	really sweating and it's so much that the drops are just gigantic and
0:58.0	they're just flopping off of you. Oh but then you figured out? I
1:01.9	figured out that that's not the case. Do you know what it really is?
1:05.0	Flop-Swett is when you're nervous about a situation, right? Right?
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