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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Naked as a Jaybird - 5 June 2017

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What’s the best way for someone busy to learn lots of new words quickly for a test like the GRE? Looking up their origins can help. Or, record yourself reading the words and definitions and play them back while you’re doing other chores. • Book recommendations for youngsters, military slang, and the one-word prank that sends Army recruits running — or at least the ones who are in on the joke! • FANBOYS, technophyte, galoot, land sickness, to have one’s habits on, zonk, and a sciurine eulogy. 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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0:00.0

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0:27.8

You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

0:33.5

I'm Grant Barrett.

0:34.5

And I'm Martha Barnett.

0:36.0

I learned something from our listeners on our Facebook group the other day.

0:39.5

There was a post from Lisa Weingart, who was talking about how she was helping her fourth grade daughter

0:44.8

editing her homework.

0:46.2

And she said that her daughter's very clever teacher

0:49.7

assigns a page of reading on a social studies topic, and then they have a list of questions regarding

0:54.7

grammatical errors asking how to combine two shorter sentences in a compound sentence.

1:00.5

That kind of thing.

1:02.1

And so her daughter looks up to her and says,

1:05.0

is or a fan boy?

1:07.0

And Lisa says, what's a fan boy?

1:09.0

And her daughter says, fan boy is a word like and.

1:12.0

And her mom says, well, no no I think you're talking about a

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