Loaded for Bear (Rebroadcast) - 2 February 2021

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🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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One way to make your new business look trendy is to use two nouns separated by an ampersand, like Peach & Creature or Rainstorm & Egg or ... just about any other two-word combination. A tongue-in-cheek website will generate names like that for you. And: In the traditions of several African countries, names for babies are often inspired by conditions at the time of their birth, like a period of grief or wedding festivities, or the baby's position when leaving the womb. In Zambia, for example, some people go by the name Bornface, because they were born face up. Also, slang from a rock-climber, who warns not to go near rock that's chossy. Plus: a proverbial puzzle, loaded for bear, pizey, helter-skelter and other reduplicatives, shirttail relative, counting coup, just a schlook, a brainteaser, 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/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	I'm Grant Barrett.
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0:36.4	Perhaps you've noticed a trend among some businesses to use an ampersand between two
0:42.1	nouns, like Creighton Barrel or here in San Diego we have a
0:46.1	couple of wonderful restaurants cloak and pedal and soda and swine. I was thinking
0:52.4	about this because I had a few laughs yesterday when I stumbled across
0:57.9	hipster business dot name which is on the web and you can just keep hitting refresh and it will generate all these business
1:06.4	names that look perfectly plausible that have Ampersands in the middle of two nouns. So like, Zebra and Well, Day and Bucket, or
1:18.6	Anger and Pearl, or Rainstorm and Egg. I would go to a place called Rainstorm and egg.
1:23.0	Yeah, what do they sell their plumbing supplies?
1:26.0	I had a few laughs, it's really fun to visit, but that sent me down a rabbit hole of reading about Ampersands, and they are so cool.
1:35.7	Did you know that it used to be that they were regarded as sort of the 27th letter of the alphabet?
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