Flop Sweat (Rebroadcast) - 26 February 2018

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🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 53 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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0:30.0	You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.6	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.2	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. Oh boy.
0:43.0	word or a phrase and the term that I'm thinking about this time that I just learned about is
0:47.3	flop sweat.
0:48.3	Flop sweat. Yeah. What did you think? 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 they're
0:58.1	just flopping off of it. Oh but then you figured out? I figured out that that's not the case. Do you know what it really is?
1:05.0	Flop sweat is when you're nervous about a situation, right? Right?
1:09.0	Let's say that you're going up before the Supreme Court and you've never been there before.
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