Hang a Ralph (Rebroadcast) - 3 September 2018

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🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The names of professional sports teams often have surprising histories — like the baseball team name inspired by, of all things, trolley-car accidents. Plus, some questions to debate at your next barbecue: Is a hot dog a sandwich if it’s in a bun? And when exactly does dusk or dawn begin? Dictionary editors wrestle with such questions all the time, and it turns out that writing a definition is a lot harder than you think. Finally, a new word for your John Hancock: When you use your finger to sign an iPad, what do you call that electronic scribble? Plus, “hang a Roscoe,” “Peck’s Bad Boy,” “coming down the pike,” sozzling, stroppy, and umbers. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: ⁠https://waywordradio.org⁠. Be a part of the show: call or text ⁠1 (877) 929-9673⁠ toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text ⁠+1 619 800 4443⁠. Send voice notes or messages via ⁠WhatsApp 16198004443.⁠ Email ⁠words@waywordradio.org⁠. 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 a way with words to show about language and how we use it.
0:03.2	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant I have a riddle for you.
0:07.1	Oh please yes. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the
0:11.8	outside and throw away the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
0:15.4	A pumpkin. A pumpkin.
0:18.4	Potatoes.
0:18.9	Because you kill potato. No, because you eat it all.
0:20.9	You're warm. You're warm. It's a starch. You throw away the outside and cook the inside
0:25.3	then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. Tapioca, Kassava.
0:28.8	I don't know. I'm thinking it's... Tapioca. I'm thinking of starches. I don't know.
0:33.4	Another name for tapioca is cat's eyes, did you know that?
0:36.0	Cheetos because you open the bag and then you eat the orange up your
0:39.5	fingers and you throw out the starchy stuff in the middle. No, no, no, it's corn on the cup.
0:45.0	I love corn on the job.
0:46.0	Oh, good, good.
0:47.0	Eat the inside.
0:48.0	Okay.
0:49.0	That's a good one.
0:50.0	I'll take that home to see what my son says.
0:51.0	Okay.
0:52.0	What else you have for me there.
0:53.0	How about this one?
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