Like a Boiled Owl (Rebroadcast) - 27 December 2021

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What’s it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You’ll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories to tell. Along the way, you’ll also pick up some slang, like NoBo, SoBo, Yo-yo and Hike Naked Day, an annual event that’s pretty much what it sounds like. Plus, which came first, the color orange or the fruit? And if you have a pain in the pinny, what part of your body hurts? Also, a brain-busting puzzle, qualtaagh, media naranja, tougher than a boiled owl, zero day, nero day, trail names, how to pronounce caramel, not a Scooby Doo, a cloud of whale dust, and lots more. 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're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it, I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.7	And I'm Martha Barnett. Grant of late I've been immersing myself in the language of
0:09.5	through hikers, those are those intrepid souls who do things like hike all the way from Mexico
0:15.2	to Canada. And I got some terms for you. For example, nobo, sobo, and yo-yo. Any idea what those are?
0:23.6	They're kind of Japanese noodles. Yeah, I could see ordering some of those and standing in.
0:28.9	I'm just thinking of soba, I guess. Right, right. What are they? So nobo, sobo, and yo-yo. Yes.
0:35.4	Hiking terms. Yes. I don't know. Well, nobo is someone who's hiking northbound.
0:42.6	Okay, so sobo would be southbound. Correct. And yo-yo would mean back and forth. That's exactly
0:48.6	you. Exactly. And go back. Yes. Yes. People actually do this. Here are a couple of other ones that
0:54.4	I liked. One is zero day and the other one is knee-ro-day. So zero day is what the day you first set out?
1:04.5	Oh, I hadn't thought about it that way, but no. If you take a zero day, it just means that you don't hike
1:11.2	that day. Okay. And knee-ro-day would be a near zero day. So you just hike 10 miles or so, not the
1:21.3	usual 20 or 30 or just 10 miles. Just 10 miles and knee-ro-day. But really good stuff when it
1:29.7	yeah, when it comes to the language of hiking, there's some really good stuff and I want to talk
1:33.5	about it some more later in the program. Well, you know, the show talks about the inside language
1:38.1	of everything sports and hobbies and business and the finance and industry and the military
1:45.4	and different things that you do that we've never heard of. We'd love to hear about the inside
1:49.9	language of your hobbies and professions. 877-929-9673. Email words at waywardradio.org or tell us
1:59.5	and the world on Twitter at w-a-y-w-o-r-d. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, I'm Natalia and I'm
2:08.0	calling from Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon. Well, hello, Natalia. Hi, Natalia. So I am calling
2:16.3	about a phrase that my grandfather used to use before he took my mother for Sunday drives.
2:24.1	So he would go like right before he went off on to on their Sunday drives, he would say,
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