I'll Be Your Boo (Rebroadcast) - 30 March 2015

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🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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 words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Language connects us and away with words celebrates that connection every week.
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0:25.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:26.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:27.0	Grant, do you remember that conversation that we had a while back about mosquitoes, large bugs that would bite you.
0:34.0	Oh yes, galley nippers, right?
0:36.6	Words like that and there was another...
0:38.0	Bloodsucking sparrows.
0:40.0	Bloods sucking sparrows.
0:41.0	Something like that.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	Well that inspired a limerick by one of our listeners.
0:45.4	This is from Jackie Bergman.
0:47.0	She's from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
0:49.5	There is a small bug that I've heard.
0:51.6	Her whining so loud, it's absurd, her bites a bad habit, her beak
0:56.1	she will stab it, the mosquito Wisconsin State Bird.
1:00.3	Nice, right? That's very nice. Do they have a problem mosquitoes in Wisconsin?
1:06.5	I think they do.
1:07.6	Apparently. Certain times of the year anyway. Well I got such a kick out of that. I wrote back to
1:12.4	Jackie and thanked her for it and she sent me another
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