Forty Eleven Zillion (Rebroadcast) - 14 July 2025

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week on "A Way with Words": 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 ask for a sleeve to put it in. The technical term for that cardboard ring is zarf -- but will you get a weird look if you ask for one? Finally, the ongoing search for an alternative to the term senior citizen. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email [email protected]. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.2	go to Amazon.com.com.uk. U.K. slash prime. You're listening to Away With Words, the show about
0:32.7	language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. On our Facebook group, Kitty O'Neill
0:39.4	asks a question that I think we all can identify with. She writes, my husband and I usually have
0:45.4	dinner together eating the same meal, but if we're not too hungry or haven't planned anything,
0:51.3	we each just fix our own food. He calls it Catch as Catch Can. I call it
0:56.7	fend for yourself. Do you call this anything? We're looking for a new phrase for us to use together,
1:02.0	and Grant Boy, did we get a boatload of answers? Oh, yeah, tons of stuff. And one of my favorites
1:07.6	is we're having getioroni.
1:15.0	Sounds like rice or roni or macaroni.
1:16.1	I know.
1:18.2	I love this imaginary pasta.
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