On the Shoe Phone (Rebroadcast) - 30 December 2013

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🗓️ 30 December 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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First names like “Patience,” “Hope,” and “Charity” are inspired by worthy qualities. But how about “Be-courteous” or “Hate-evil”? The Puritans sometimes gave children such names hoping that their kids would live up to them. Also, even some feminists are discarding the name “feminist.” Plus, reticent vs. reluctant, sherbet vs. sherbert, mosquitoes vs. lawyers, and a word for that feeling in your toes after a great kiss. 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]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	you're listening to a way with words the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.3	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. We got an email from a listener named Susan who wrote,
0:38.5	while climbing up my family tree, I found the given name Hate Evil. What would one call that kind of name? I'm assuming there
0:45.1	were Puritans. And grant it turns out that there were indeed Puritans who went by the first name
0:50.0	Hate Evil, it's just like it sounds, a combination of hate and evil.
0:54.0	And there is a term for this kind of name, it's called a hortatory name, and that's
0:58.0	hortatory.
0:59.0	Hortatory. It's from the Latin for encourage or urge,
1:02.0	and these hortatory names were given to children as a way of
1:05.1	exhorting them to to live up to that quality. So for example there were little
1:10.4	Puritan babies with these names these hyp hyphenated names like Be Curdius,
1:15.0	search the scriptures, sorry for sin, and fight the good fight of faith.
1:20.1	That is far beyond patience, hope, charity, and so forth, right?
1:24.0	Isn't it?
1:25.0	And those were the exceptions.
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