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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When there’s no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? Some people apply acronyms like YOYO — “you’re on your own” — or CORN, for “Clean Out your Refrigerator Night.” Plus, when a barista hands you hot coffee in a paper cup, you may get a zarf to put it in — but what is that? And, the ongoing search for an alternative to the term senior citizen, and lots more. 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, the show about language, and how we use it.
0:04.3	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:05.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:07.2	On our Facebook group, Kitty O'Neill asks a question that I think we all can identify with.
0:12.5	She writes,
0:13.6	My husband and I usually have dinner together eating the same meal.
0:17.8	But if we're not too hungry or haven't planned anything,
0:21.2	we each just fix our own food.
0:23.4	He calls it, catches catch can.
0:25.8	I call it, fend for yourself.
0:27.9	Do you call this anything?
0:29.2	We're looking for a new phrase for us to use together.
0:31.7	And Grant Boy did, we get a boatload of answers.
0:35.2	Oh, yeah, tons of stuff.
0:36.4	And one of my favorites is, we're having Get Your Owny.
0:42.0	Sounds like rice oroni or macaroni.
0:45.5	I know. I love this, this imaginary pasta.
0:48.1	Get your own, I mean, you can just imagine the tired adult comes home from work
0:52.4	and the kids are saying, what are we going to have?
0:53.9	What are you going to have?
0:54.6	Get your owny.
0:55.4	Or make your owny.
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