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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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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/. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.7	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. I love living here in San Diego,
0:08.7	but every once in a while I get a little nostalgic for things I remember from back east and that happened to me the other
0:16.8	day when I saw some exquisite photographs online of those little bugs that fly through the air and glow.
0:26.4	At night.
0:27.4	Fireflies.
0:28.4	Right. Well, Fireflies.
0:29.8	Yeah, I grew up saying lightning.
0:31.4	Yeah, so did I in Missouri.
0:33.0	And I was just so struck by seeing them that, of course,
0:35.8	I drilled down and started looking
0:37.6	in all these other words for Firefly or Lightning bug
0:41.0	because there are other terms around the country.
0:43.9	Some people call them lighter flies or glow worms.
0:47.5	Some people call them third shift mosquitoes, which I really like. But it's also cool to look at the words for
0:56.2	fireflies in other languages because in Brazil they call them
1:01.6	vagalumi which means wandering light.
1:05.0	Oh, interesting. I can hear that, the Vagabana,
1:08.0	and the lumi like Lumi air or something.
1:10.0	Yes, exactly.
1:12.0	And the Hebrew word for this insect translates as little
1:16.8	ember or little spark. Sure, they're like a spark coming up from a wood fire
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