Orange Pigs - 22 January 2024

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What do you call a segment of an orange? These juicy pieces of fruit go by lots of different names, including section, wedge, and carpel. But they’re also called pegs or even pigs! The stringy parts of a banana also have a surprising name. Also, we need a word to describe that productive period of wakefulness in the middle of the night before falling back into “second sleep.” And: anagrams that make a statement. The letters in the word “listen,” l-i-s-t-e-n, can be rearranged to form the word “silent,” and the word “conversation” can be switched around to read “Voices rant on”! Plus, gussie, phloem bundles, desahogar, dorveille, a “take-off” quiz, the wayback, ahogarse en un vaso de agua, different ways to say “You’re welcome,” hypnopompic, uto-uto, sockdolager, apizza, bobtail beats the devil, and just like New York! This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. Get your discount at https://nordvpn.com/AWAYWITHWORDS 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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0:00.0	Setting an example for your kids, doing embarrassing dance moves to your 90s playlist, bad example.
0:07.5	Taking Hallib Orange vitamins, good example.
0:10.5	It's as simple as one for me and one for you. Stave off colds and sniffles and
0:16.9	make vitamin time as fun as you remember it. With Halib Orange's great tasting vitamins
0:21.7	that benefit the whole family.
0:23.5	Start your healthy habit together with Hallib Orange vitamins.
0:27.5	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.7	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.7	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.7	Ananagram is a word or phrase that's formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase and typically using all the original letters exactly once.
0:48.0	So for example, the word listen can be rearranged to make the word silent.
0:54.3	And we got a great anagram from John Ward in Dallas, Texas.
0:58.8	He takes the phrase 11 plus 2, and he anagrams those words and they become 12 plus 1. So it's 11 plus 2 and 12 plus 1.
1:08.2	Both of those add up to 13 and they both have 13 letters.
1:13.0	Oh, that's so nice.
1:14.0	That's such an excellent aged worm.
1:16.0	I mean word game.
1:17.0	Oh, aged worm.
1:18.0	Aged worm, it's an anagram for word game.
1:21.0	I guess it is.
1:22.0	This is a classic word puzzle type right? Anagrams? Yes yes and
1:27.9	there are lots and lots of these dormitory anagrams to dirty room.
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