Highway Robbery - 4 December 2023
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language, and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. What happens if you de-pluralize the title of a book. You get some pretty intriguing titles that |
| 0:45.5 | suggests some stories that could be really interesting to read. For example, you |
| 0:50.6 | take Louisa May Alcott's little women and that becomes little woman. |
| 0:56.0 | So it's more than just dropping off the S. That makes me think of Ralph Cramden talking about his wife, all the little woman. |
| 1:03.8 | The grapes of wrath become the grape of wrath, you know, just one very angry grape. |
| 1:10.5 | Right, a giant grape that took over Hoboken. |
| 1:13.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, listeners on our Facebook group were talking about this and they came up with a lot of |
| 1:20.3 | great examples. |
| 1:21.7 | One of my favorites is a Crow on the Orient Express. |
| 1:25.4 | Oh, clever. A crow on the Orient Express, though. What would that be about? |
| 1:30.3 | That would be about a crow in a little top hat and a cane seeking passage and being refused a dining car. |
| 1:37.0 | Walking down the aisle, I can see it. |
| 1:42.0 | And how about where the wild thing is? |
| 1:44.7 | That's like something. You go to your dermatologist, |
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