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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Books for sale, books for free, and wisdom passed down through the ages. Libraries aren’t just repositories for books — they’re often a great place to find gently used volumes for sale. Or you can always visit a “little free library” — a neighborhood spot dedicated to recycling your own books, and picking up new ones for free. Plus: “When two elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers” — weighty proverbs from East Africa. Finally, the United States and the UK are separated by more than a common language: the way we talk about numbers is also surprisingly different, depending on which side of the pond you’re on. Also: “I don’t know him from Adam,” stargazy pie, “my dogs are barking,” and cheiloproclitic. Ruminate on that! 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	Language connects us and away with words celebrates that connection every week.
0:04.8	But did you know the show is largely listener supported?
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0:19.0	Thank you for being a part of Away With Words.
0:22.0	You're listening to A Way With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:25.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:26.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:27.0	I saw the most amazing play the other day.
0:30.0	Oh, yeah.
0:31.0	It was called Our Lady of Cabayho. Cabayho.
0:34.0	Cabayho, which is in Rwanda.
0:36.0	And it's based on the true story that takes place in the 1980s
0:40.0	of these girls at a Catholic boarding school there in the town of Cabejo.
0:44.9	They start having visions of the Virgin Mary and eventually they become local celebrities and
0:51.0	they start having these darker visions and they could be interpreted to have been a premonition of the genocide in
0:59.4	1994 and I have to say Grant the play itself is thrilling, it's astonishing, it's gorgeous, as was the production here at Moxie Theater in San Diego,
1:11.0	which just ended its run.
1:12.9	And the playwright, Katori Hall,
1:15.6	spent a lot of time in Rwanda researching the play.
1:19.5	And I bring it up because there are several times
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