I'll Be Your Boo - 4 November 2013

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 3 November 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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If you’re nibbling on slippery Jims or sipping sweet soup, chances are you’re in the Badger State. It’s the language of Wisconsin — explained at last. Also, the famous abolitionist whose name became an exclamation, and how to respond if someone says, “Well, aren’t you the chawed rosin!” Plus, parking garages vs. parking ramps, trouper vs. trooper, my boo, and the possible origin of toodles. 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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0:28.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.1	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.4	Grant, do you remember that conversation that we had a while back about mosquitoes, large bugs
0:41.2	that would bite you? Gallyn yes, galley nippers, right?
0:44.8	Words like that and there's another one. Bloods sucking sparrows.
0:48.2	Blood sucking sparrows. That's right. Yeah. Well that inspired a limerick by one of our listeners. This is from
0:54.1	Jackie Bergman. She's from Green Bay, Wisconsin. There is a small bug that I've heard.
0:59.2	Her whining so loud, it's absurd. Her bite's a bad bad habit her beak she will stab it the
1:05.7	mosquito Wisconsin state bird.
1:08.3	Nice right?
1:12.0	That's very nice.
1:13.0	Do they have a problem with mosquitoes in Wisconsin?
1:15.0	I think they do.
1:16.0	Apparently.
1:17.0	Certain times of the year anyway.
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