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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 and I am sorely tempted to start a new hobby if only for this slang.

What's it this time? Painting bridges, naming clouds?

No, no, no, I got tired of those. But the vocabulary of the hobby I'm talking about includes terms

like Coinball, Nighthawk, Gold Dance and My Favorite, Can Slaw, C-A-N-S-L-A-W.

Can Slaw, Coinball? This is like something you buy at the fair. I'll have a Cornball, Coinball,

and a Corndog. And an elephant ear. No, these are all terms that come from the field of metal detecting.

Oh, right. So a Coinball is a chunk of dirt you find with a coin inside and maybe in their

lingo it has friends that is their other little coins in the same hole that you dig.

And Can Slaw is shreds of aluminum cans left after a lawnmower ran over them, which I think is just

so picturesque. And a Nighthawk is somebody who detects illegally at night and a Gold Dance is what

you do if you actually discover gold. Oh, yeah, the little happy jig, the little happy jig of

discovery. Yeah, smile on your face. Yes, and I was all excited about this having watched the

wonderful BBC series Detectorists. Yes. Have you seen that? I've seen a couple episodes. It's

fun but weird. Exactly. Well, it's like us. It's a couple of passionate nerds who are maybe

socially awkward. But yeah, but yeah, I think it's just hysterically funny. I am really

luxuriating in this show. But apparently metal detecting is becoming very trendy in this country.

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