Pants on Fire - 16 October 2017

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🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A highly anticipated children’s book and the epic history behind a familiar vegetable: fans of illustrator Maurice Sendak eagerly await publication of a newly discovered manuscript by the late author. And speaking of children’s literature, some wise advice from the author of Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White: “Anybody who shifts gears when he writes for children is likely to wind up stripping his gears.” • When is a mango not a mango? If you’re in Southern Indiana, you may not be talking about a tropical fruit. • The longest f-word in the dictionary has 29 letters, and is rarely used — partly because pronouncing it is such a challenge. Also, Limestone Belt, I swanee, gorby, fluke print, pour the cobs on, and liar, liar, pants on fire. 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 words@waywordradio.org. 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; charges may apply. 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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0:33.4	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.8	We talked a couple of weeks ago about the Smile Belt, which is a region of the United
0:41.2	States that's defined if you go down one coast and across the bottom and up the other coast and
0:46.5	marketers talk about marketing to the smile belt.
0:49.2	Okay. The fast-growing regions of the US. And we asked what other belts there are in the country,
0:56.0	besides the Bible Belt and the Pine Belt.
0:59.0	And we heard from Wendy Sterling in Pennsylvania
1:02.0	who points out that in Pennsylvania they have the potato
1:05.1	belt because there are a lot of potatoes grown in Pennsylvania.
1:09.2	I did not know that.
1:10.5	And in fact, it's sometimes called the potato chip belt because there are a lot of snack foods produced in Pennsylvania.
1:17.0	I think I knew that.
1:18.0	That there are bags of potato chips will often say that they were made in Pennsylvania.
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