Oh For Cute - 8 October 2018

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A stereotype is a preconceived notion about a person or group. Originally, though, the word stereotype referred to a printing device used to produce lots of identical copies. • The link between tiny mythical creatures called trolls and modern-day mischief-makers. • The stories behind the color names we give to horses. • Wise advice about fending off despair: learn something new! • Also: grinslies, personal summer, cowboy slang, smell vs. odor, orient vs. orientate, trolls and trolling, and just for fun, some agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun compounds. 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 [email protected]. 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. 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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0:27.8	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.1	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.7	A compound word consists of two words that are put together to express one idea.
0:41.1	Like the word House Boat is made up of two words house and boat. Same with
0:45.2	steamboat and both of these specify a particular kind of boat. But there are few compound
0:51.4	words in English that work differently.
0:54.0	A Scarecrow, for example, isn't a type of crow, and a pickpocket isn't a type of pocket.
1:00.0	And words like Scarecrow and Pickpocket belong to a small category of compounds that name people
1:04.9	and things by describing what they do.
1:08.4	And the interesting thing is that centuries ago there was a real fashion for forming words like this and it was a whole lot of fun
1:14.6	like a quake breach can you guess what a quake breach is somebody who's shaking in their
1:19.7	boots yes yes it was in their breaches yeah Yeah, they're a coward, or a saddle goose.
1:25.0	What about a saddle goes?
1:26.0	Somebody who's a bad horse rider?
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