Nothing to Sneeze At - 14 April 2014

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🗓️ 13 April 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Forensic linguists use what they know about speech and writing to testify in courtrooms. And get out your hankies! Martha and Grant are talking about the language of ... sneezing. And what do you call it when you clean the house in a hurry because company's coming? How about making lasagna or shame cleaning? Plus who's a hoopie, down goes your shanty, hold on to your blueberry money, and gym slang fit for a cardio queen. 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 [email protected]. 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	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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