Gilded Age - 25 March 2024

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In her sumptuous new memoir, Jamaican writer Safiya Sinclair describes her escape from a difficult childhood ruled by her tyrannical father. For Sinclair, poetry became a lifeline. Plus: that fizzy chocolate drink called an egg cream contains neither eggs nor cream — but why? And what do you call a cute dimple in someone’s chin? A listener calls it a chimple. Also, arrested sternutation, nonplussed, slatch, the Gruen effect, tinker, barnburner, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, and how lakes are named. Please fill out our listener survey! It will help us understand you, our audience, which helps make the show better! https://gum.fm/words 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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0:29.6	You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:34.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.2	We received some feedback about our conversation regarding the expression tight as a tick. Yeah we had a call about why we say
0:45.4	tight as a tick and Martha and I explained that it's those little guys who bite
0:51.0	your skin and fill themselves with your blood.
0:54.0	Exactly.
0:55.0	Well, we heard from Holly Gaff, who is a professor of biology at Old Dominion University
1:01.0	in Norfolk, Virginia.
1:03.0	And she says that she enjoyed learning about the history of that expression,
1:06.6	and then she writes,
1:07.7	However, as a tick researcher for more than 25 years,
1:12.0	and I sort of dreaded what came next.
1:14.5	She said, I did want to encourage you to not refer to ticks as insects.
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