Gift Horse (Rebroadcast) - 5 February 2024

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The edge of the Grand Canyon. A remote mountaintop. A medieval cathedral. Some places are so mystical you feel like you’re close to another dimension of space and time. There’s a term for such locales: thin places. And: did you ever go tick-tacking a few nights before Halloween? It’s pranks like tapping ominously on windows without being caught or tossing corn kernels all over a front porch. Also, horses run throughout our language, a relic of when these animals were much more commonplace in everyday life. For example, the best place to get information about a horse you might buy isn’t from the owner — it’s straight from the horse’s mouth. Plus, shoofly pie,bring you down a buttonhole lower, didaskaleinophobia, pangrams by middle schoolers, Albany beef, using say as an interjection or attention-getter, a brainteaser inspired by a New Jersey grandma, and a whole lot 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 Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.2	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:05.9	Danielle Kool teaches seventh grade English language art at Home Street Middle School in Bishop
0:11.6	California, and she does something special in the Home Street Middle School in Bishop, California.
0:13.2	And she does something special in the middle of each week.
0:16.2	She has away with words Wednesdays.
0:18.2	Wow.
0:19.1	Kids can come to her classroom and they eat lunch there
0:22.2	and they listen to our podcast and they talk about
0:24.2	language and they try to beat us at the quizzes and that kind of thing.
0:29.3	And we had an episode a while back on pangrams.
0:32.8	Right, these are sentences that include all the letters of the alphabet and as brief
0:37.0	wording as possible.
0:38.4	Yes, yes, at least once.
0:40.6	And she sent to some of the pangrams that her students came up with and a lot of them are better, I think, than the ones that adults sent to us.
0:48.0	Oh, really? Yeah. Here's one from Morgan that goes,
0:51.0	The Quick Mama Bunny had very good instincts to help six of her babies from getting jumped on by a white
0:57.3	zebra.
0:58.0	It's really picturesque.
1:00.0	I was waiting for the zee.
1:01.0	I was like, how should you go work the zee into that story? Yeah, well funny you should mention the zee. I was like, how are you going to work the z into that story?
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