How America Talks - 27 January 2014

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🗓️ 26 January 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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For language lovers, it’s like New Year’s, Fourth of July, and the Super Bowl all rolled into one: The brand-new online edition of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Martha and Grant explain what all the fuss is about. Plus, the debate over that meal in a glass container: some call it a hot dish, while others say it’s a casserole. And just when did we start using the terms boyfriend and girlfriend? Also in this episode: painters and artists, vaping, chamber pots, the lucky phrase rabbit, rabbit, and a news quiz in limericks! 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.
0:31.5	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:33.6	Recently in the language world something happened that might be described as
0:38.1	the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the 4th of July, New Year's, three scoops of ice cream
0:42.3	and a new kitten all rolled into one.
0:44.0	Oh, I know where you're going.
0:46.0	You know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about the fact that the magnificent six-volume
0:50.2	Dictionary of American Regional English is now available online.
0:55.0	That's, it's digital and searchable and it's awesome.
0:58.0	And sound clips.
0:59.0	I know, sound clips. Check this one out.
1:02.0	The first purpose, well well that's like ham and eggs, eggs go with the ham, hush
1:07.2	purpose go with fish.
1:08.7	Hush puppies are made from cornmeal and onions and and you can put an egg in them.
1:16.0	And after you cook the fish in you fry them in the deep grease that you fry the fish in. Grant, that guy sounds just like my father's people. I mean the hairs on the back of my
1:27.8	next stand up when I hear that kind of thing and the online version of this
1:31.9	dictionary has 4,000 sound clips like that.
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