How Did Prehistoric Parents Feed The Kids?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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If a baby couldn’t nurse, what did prehistoric parents do before baby bottles? Julie Dunne, a biomolecular archaeologist and pot lady, analyzed some adorable ancient artifacts to answer the question. Plus, a big day for niblings. Thanks to callers Kate and Michael. Guest: Pot lady Julie Dunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, so I want to take care of a little business before we get to today's question.
0:07.0	A few episodes ago we asked you to send us your favorite underused word, a word that you love and
0:14.8	that you want other people to love too. And hundreds of you sent in submissions.
0:19.5	With the help of a dictionary editor we narrowed them down to three choices,
0:23.7	pre-gret, nibbling, and prostrated.
0:26.8	Which one belongs in the dictionary?
0:29.0	You voted, and we have a winner.
0:37.0	Hello, this is Michael. So Michael, I'm calling with some official news.
0:43.4	Oh my God, I hope it's good news.
0:45.4	The E.L.T. listening community has voted.
0:49.6	Are you ready for the results?
0:52.2	I have never been more ready for anything in my life. Oh, America's next top word is
1:23.7	Top Word is is
1:27.7	nibbling.
1:29.7	Woeing! W. Oh, that was so satisfying.
1:40.0	That was so satisfying.
1:41.2	Thank you so much for making sure I got that in such traumatic fashion.
1:45.5	Your submission, nibbling the gender neutral one word substitute for nieces and nephews,
1:51.1	got the most votes. How do you feel? I am so so thrilled. I mean it was great to see
1:59.8	democracy in action you know I watch those votes come in and I felt like
2:04.4	that people really spoke. Yes, your word did seem to strike a chord. We even got
2:09.6	voicemails about it. I was very excited to hear nibbling as one of the options.
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