Jump Steady (Rebroadcast) - 21 May 2018

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 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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0:40.9	Wait, what?
0:42.0	Who are you and what are you saying?
0:44.0	It's my secret code!
0:45.0	I just said, welcome to Away with Words, I am Grant.
0:48.0	You did?
0:49.0	All right, so here's what happened.
0:50.0	I was reading the spy novel by Len Dayton great stuff said in Berlin and in this book you know how
0:55.8	authors will just like throw in this little thing and not explain it yeah he mentioned
0:59.8	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
1:08.9	Ciphers used to hide information from you know the enemy or your competitors or somebody else or from the government.
1:17.9	And there's books of these, like many, many books of these and list of these where you take what you want to say you look it up in
1:25.2	the code book you write it all out and figure out what word stands for what other
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