Podcast Bonus! The New Word Open Mic

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 4 August 2007

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In June, Grant attended the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America. One of the highlights was the New Word Open Mic where anybody was invited to step up to the microphone and submit a new word they had coined or found. Grant was one of the judges, and shares some of the new words submitted in this bonus podcast from A Way with Words. 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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0:40.2	poddictionary.com. I'm Grant Barrett. In June I attended the Biennial
0:48.0	meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America hosted this year on the
0:51.4	campus of the University of Chicago.
0:53.0	Among other things, we held what we call a new word open mic.
0:57.0	We invited anybody to step up to a microphone
1:00.0	and tell us about a new word they'd coined or found.
1:03.0	We're going to share some of those words with you today.
1:05.0	Words and papers, words and books, words and books on TV,
1:09.0	words for books, words of comfort, words of peace,
1:12.0	words to make the fighting cease, words to tell you what to do,
1:16.0	words are working hard for you, eat your words but don't go hungry.
1:20.0	Words have always nearly hung me.
1:22.0	I was honored to be one of the three panelists judging the open mic
1:25.0	in something like American Idol fashion.
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