Noon Balloon to Rangoon (Rebroadcast) - 1 February 2016

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Is there a word you keep having to look up in the dictionary, no matter how many times you’ve looked it up before? Maybe it’s time for a mnemonic device. And: a listener shares a letter from Kurt Vonnegut himself, with some reassuring advice about what to do when the words just won’t come. Plus, what does it mean when someone asks if you came in on the noon balloon? Also: bog standard, brumate, Ricky Rescue, Ned in the primer, a horse apiece, Blackacre vs. Whiteacre, childish vs. childlike, do the needful, and “Do what?” 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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0:33.3	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.3	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.8	Grant, like you, words are the main thing that I do.
0:39.0	But there are still these words that I have to look up every single time I run across them.
0:45.0	You have that experience, right?
0:47.0	Yeah, because you're not 100% sure.
0:48.0	Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure.
0:50.0	And I think my resolution for this year is that I want to be really mindful of that, really pay attention
0:57.1	to those words because I think that's the way I'm going to learn them.
0:59.9	Sort of like I'm trying to teach myself to remember where I left my car keys by I read in a book that you should just tell yourself
1:06.6	I'm putting my car keys on the table right so whenever I come across a word like this I'm going to just stop what I'm doing and tell myself I'm looking up this word and learning it once and for all.
1:16.2	Ah, and the latest one that I did was innervate.
1:20.0	Innovate. Why? What was holding you back on that one well you know what I mean when I look at the word
1:25.0	innervate I think it means something about agitation or energizing
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