Nothing to Sneeze At - 14 April 2014
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🗓️ 13 April 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Cheese It has arrived. A cheesy new snack that's packed full of intense cheesy flavor. |
| 0:09.0 | Get your hands on a pack in stores now. |
| 0:15.0 | Fancy a cheese hit! |
| 0:18.0 | You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language, and how we use it. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:26.0 | You know that feeling when you're going to sneeze and you're going to sneeze and you're going to sneeze and you're going to sneeze and then you don't? |
| 0:31.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes, I do know that feeling. Well our listener Carissa Bell asked us that |
| 0:36.0 | question on Twitter is there a term for that and the best we could come up |
| 0:40.6 | with Grant was arrested sternutation. |
| 0:43.4 | Right, yeah. |
| 0:44.4 | That works right? |
| 0:45.4 | I think it does. |
| 0:46.2 | Sternutation in English means sneezing. |
| 0:49.3 | It comes from a Latin word that also gives us the word in Spanish and French and Italian for sneeze and I think it works. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah that's a really good one. Yeah. There are a lot of terms for this on Urban Dictionary |
| 0:59.6 | for what that's worth but the one I liked best was sneeze freeze. |
| 1:03.3 | Sneeze freeze. |
| 1:04.9 | It works, right? |
| 1:05.9 | They're like brain freeze, sneeze freeze. I like that. |
| 1:08.2 | But we've all had that feeling. The body wants to expel, but the body cannot expel. |
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