Folding Money - 22 May 2023
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:26.5 | collection today. |
| 0:29.9 | You're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's a word I just added to my vocabulary, and you might want to add it too if you don't |
| 0:40.1 | know it. |
| 0:41.1 | Willipus Wallipus. |
| 0:42.1 | A Willipus Wallipus, what did the doctors say cause that? |
| 0:48.2 | A Willipus Wallipus, which is W-I-L-L-L-I-P-U-S, hyphen, W-A-L-L-I-P-U-S. |
| 0:56.5 | In the late 19th century, a Willipus Wallipus was this vague legendary monster with lots of |
| 1:02.5 | legs that supposedly haunted the American South. |
| 1:07.0 | But soon after, it became a term that applied to esteem roller, or some similar large machine |
| 1:13.5 | that you'd use on the road, any large piece of road equipment. |
| 1:17.8 | And I was just looking at a 1932 newspaper that talked about the town's municipal Willipus |
| 1:24.4 | Wallipus. |
| 1:25.4 | I've been thinking about Willipus Wallipus for any large thing my dog bear is getting |
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