Flying Pickle (Rebroadcast) - 18 November 2019

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How would you like to be welcomed to married life by friends and neighbors descending on your home for a noisy celebration, tearing off the labels of all your canned foods and scattering cornflakes in your bed? That tradition has almost died out, but such a party used to be called a shivaree. • The expression my name is Legion goes back to a Bible story that also gave us another English word that’s much more obscure. • Tips for reading a book and looking up the words you don’t know — without losing the narrative thread. • Plus, lazy wind, plumb, bucklebuster, squinnies and grinnies, pollyfoxing and bollyfoxing, that smarts!, and hanged vs. hung. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it.
0:03.7	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.8	And I'm Martha Barnett. On our Facebook page, Rose Carbonella described a cold blustery day that she spent in the mountains of Virginia, and she was photographing
0:16.1	with a group of people from the UK, and she writes,
0:19.7	one of the gentlemen in the group turned to me and said, this is what we call a lazy wind.
0:25.3	It goes through you instead of around you.
0:28.7	That's nice.
0:29.7	A lazy wind.
0:31.1	Oh, I know those winds.
0:32.2	Yeah, right?
0:33.0	And this phrase goes back a couple hundred years, a lazy wind.
0:36.0	I love it when the language has the jokes embedded in it.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	It still work after all that time.
0:41.0	And it's so descriptive too.
0:43.1	You know that feeling when that wind just
0:45.2	goes right through you.
0:46.0	It makes me think of Chicago more than Virginia.
0:48.4	Is there anything that makes you feel more insignificant
0:52.1	than the weather that pays you no mind.
0:55.0	When you're reading and you come across words,
0:57.1	make a note and then call us and we can all talk about it.
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