Gee and Haw - 12 March 2018

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The highly specialized vocabulary of people who work outdoors, communicating with sled dogs, a word from the sport of rock-climbing, church key, browse line, smeuse, nitnoy, mommick, zawn, zwer, boom dog, and I think my pig is whistling. 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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0:27.8	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett
0:35.8	Grant. I have a new word for you. Yes, please.
0:38.1	Smuse.
0:40.3	To smile when you watch the news?
0:43.0	It's not a verb.
0:45.0	It's a noun.
0:46.0	It's SMEU S, Muse.
0:50.0	And it's a dialectal term from Sussex in Southeast England, and it means the gap in the base of a hedge made
0:56.8	by the regular passage of a small animal.
0:59.6	And this is in current use.
1:00.6	Yes.
1:01.6	Oh, that's adorable. Well, I thought you'd like it and I wanted to share it because I learned it from a passionate
1:07.6	lyrical book of essays and glossaries called Landmarks. It's by the British author Robert McFarland. The book is an effort to
1:16.0	reanimate our connection with nature by collecting more than 2,000 terms that are
1:22.0	used in various dialects all over England.
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