Jump Steady - 23 November 2015

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

To transmit information during wartime, various industries used to encode their messages letter by letter with an elaborate system–a primitive version of today’s digital encryption. Grant breaks down some of those secret codes, and shares the story of the most extensive telegram ever sent. Plus, we’ve all been there: Your friends are on a date, and you’re tagging along. Are you a “third wheel”–or the “fifth wheel”? There’s more than one term for the odd person out. Finally, a rhyming quiz about famous poems. For example, what immortal line of poetry rhymes with: “Prose is a nose is a hose is a pose”? Plus, women named after their mothers, variations on “Happy Birthday,” “at bay,” nannies’ charges, and a racy blues singer who taught us to “jump steady.” 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	This episode is brought to you by Meta for Work.
0:02.6	It's not just sci-fi anymore.
0:04.4	Virtual and mixed reality are transforming how business works.
0:07.6	Architects can use mixed reality to walk through buildings that aren't even built yet.
0:11.4	People from around the world can meet up in more immersive ways,
0:14.1	working shoulder to shoulder in virtual spaces
0:16.2	to get real work done.
0:17.6	And all sorts of professionals are getting hands-on training
0:20.1	and safer, more cost-effective virtual environments.
0:23.0	Meta for work.
0:24.0	Work smarter, closer, safer, together.
0:27.0	Visit for work.
0:28.0	Meta.com to learn more.
0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language, and how we use it.
0:33.7	I'm Martha Barnett.
0:34.8	Subductus, Salivandis, Trevoldo's switch, taintless, Ambroya Escutimo dormitory.
0:41.0	Wait, what?
0:42.0	Who are you and what are you saying? It's my secret code! I just said welcome to
0:46.3	Away With Words. I am Grant. You did? All right, so here's what happened. I was
0:50.5	reading the spy novel by Len Dayton great stuff said in Berlin and in this
0:55.2	book you know how authors will just like throw in this little thing and not explain it
0:58.6	yeah he mentioned commercial codes and I'm like well now I have to Google that commercial codes and I looked it up and it turns out that these are codes like actual
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