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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Piping Hot (Rebroadcast) - 29 May 2023

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The game of baseball has alway inspired colorful commentary. Sometimes that means using familiar words in unfamiliar ways. The word stuff, for example, can refer to a pitcher’s repertoire, to the spin on a ball, or what happens to the ball after a batter hits it. Also: nostalgia for summer evenings and fond terms for fireflies, a word to describe that feeling when your favorite restaurant closes for good, and homonyms, forswunk, sweetbreads, get on the stick, back friend, farblonjet, and taco de ojo. 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

You know it, and MODYBODY knows it, LEAKS SUCK!

0:05.7

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0:10.4

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0:11.7

Designed to absorb up to 2-3 tampons without leaking, you'll forget all about your period

0:17.3

while you move, jump, kick and sweat.

0:20.4

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0:26.5

collection today.

0:33.5

I love living here in San Diego, but every once in a while I get a little nostalgic for

0:42.6

things I remember from back east, and that happened to me the other day when I saw some

0:48.4

exquisite photographs online of those little bugs that fly through the air and glow.

0:56.0

At night.

0:57.0

Fireflies.

0:58.0

Right, well, Fireflies.

0:59.0

Yeah, I grew up saying lightning bugs, and I was just so struck by seeing them that

1:05.0

of course I drilled down and started looking at all these other words for Firefly or

1:10.0

lightning bug because there are other terms around the country.

1:13.5

Some people call them lighter flies or glow worms.

1:17.1

Some people call them third-shift mosquitoes, which I really like, but it's also cool to

1:23.7

look at the words for Fireflies in other languages because in Brazil they call them vagalumi,

1:32.8

which means wandering light.

1:34.8

Oh, interesting.

1:35.8

I can hear that the vagal like vagabond, lumi or something.

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