Pizza Bones - 25 September 2023

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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If your last name is Cook or Smith, your ancestors probably worked in those professions. But what if your last name is Pope? Or Abbott? And if you have enough food for Coxey’s army, you have more than enough to go around. The phrase refers to protesters marching on Washington more than a century ago. Plus, some people say pizza bones are the best parts of the pie! Also, biweekly, shichimencho, piza no mimi, a Barbenheimer-inspired portmanteau puzzle, advice for writers of children’s books, lax vowel lowering, zero-proof drink, spoken Garamond, a catchy camp song, and more. 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're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it.
0:04.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:05.7	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:07.2	Grant, if something's really easy to do, you would say, oh, that's a cinch.
0:12.8	Yeah, that's a cinch.
0:14.0	Or what kind of food would you refer to?
0:16.6	That's a piece of cake.
0:17.8	Exactly, a piece of cake.
0:20.0	And that's what we say in English, but around the world there are various
0:24.5	expressions for this that have to do with other kinds of foods.
0:27.9	For example, in Dutch, the expression for it's a piece of cake,
0:32.0	translates as, it's a little egg, isn't that sweet?
0:35.4	A little egg, okay.
0:37.2	Yeah, or in Polish, it translates as, it's a roll with butter,
0:42.3	or in Brazilian Portuguese.
0:43.8	I love this one.
0:44.5	It's a papaya with sugar.
0:47.0	A papaya with sugar, now that's a thing.
0:49.9	Yeah, isn't that tastier than cake?
0:52.0	I know.
0:52.5	For you.
0:53.2	What kind of cake are you eating?
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