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🗓️ 11 March 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It’s the Up Goer Five Challenge! Try to describe something complex using only the thousand most common words in English. It’s a useful mental exercise that’s harder than you might think. Also, if you want to make a room dark, you might turn off the lights. But you might also cut them off or shut them. You probably know the experience of hearing or seeing a word so long that it ceases to make sense. But did you know linguists have a term for that? Plus, cumshaw artists, the history of Hoosier and beep, and the debate over whether numbers are nouns or adjectives. This episode first aired March 8, 2013. 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 [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:31.6	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. A few
0:34.6	hundred miles off the east coast of Australia there's this beautiful little
0:38.0	place. It's called Norfolk Island and it's just 13 miles square.
0:42.5	There are only 2,000 people who live there.
0:44.5	Most of them are descendants of British sailors and Polynesians.
0:48.0	And when you look at photos of the place, Grant,
0:50.3	the place is just gorgeous.
0:52.2	It's this typical South Pacific Paradise.
0:55.5	So that's enough to make you envious right there,
0:57.4	but there's one other thing that makes me really wistful
0:59.9	the more I read about this place.
1:02.0	And maybe it gives you a little insight into their culture.
1:04.6	A lot of people on this island go by nicknames and in fact the island's phone book includes
1:10.4	them. You can go online Grant and look at this because there for example lots of
1:14.7	buffets on Norfolk Island but if you want Darlene Buffett you go looking for Dar Bizi B.
1:21.0	Dar Bizi B.
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