Life of Riley (Rebroadcast) - 15 April 2024

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Unwrap the name of a candy bar, and you just might find a story inside. For instance, one chewy treat found in many a checkout lane is named after a family’s beloved horse. And: 50 years ago in the United States, some Latino elementary students were made to adopt English versions of their own names and forbidden to speak Spanish. The idea was to help them assimilate, but that practice came with a price. Plus, who is Riley, and why is their life a luxurious one? Also: a brain-busting quiz about synonyms, salary, dingle-dousie, strong work, a leg up, it must have been a lie, don’t get into any jackpots, and lots more. Please fill out our listener survey! It will help us understand you, our audience, which helps make the show better! https://gum.fm/words 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	You can sense the glory.
0:02.0	Is this distorted something?
0:04.0	Feel it in your bones.
0:06.0	Wow! The quarterfinals.
0:08.0	Unstappable. Full of vivid nerve-wracking moments
0:10.0	where every decision costs more means more and makes history.
0:16.0	This is where the season is defined.
0:19.0	Oh, it's matching.
0:20.0	Every game, the of one down.
0:23.0	Total.
0:24.0	The U-A for Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League
0:27.0	Quarterfinals, only on TNT Sports.
0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.6	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.0	Grant, do you know what well-known candy bar is named after a horse?
0:41.0	Well-known candy bar named after a horse.
0:45.0	The stallion, I don't, the marshmallion stallion. I don't know.
0:50.0	I have no idea.
0:52.0	Well, no, imagine you're standing in the checkout line and there's all this
0:54.6	candy in front of you. Oh a hundred thousand dollar bar. Right because that's like price money.
0:59.8	Well it could it could maybe it is. Baby Ruth. No that's baseball player Mars bar. I have no I have no idea
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