Put on the Dog - 2 April 2018

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Why isn’t “you’re welcome” the default response to “thank you” for everyone? Plus lies that kids tell, Philadelphia lawyer, cowbelly, skutch, mind-bottling vs. mind-boggling, tsundoku, infanticipating, noisy piece of cheese, a word game, and lots 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/. 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	Every episode of A Way With Words is a labor of love made possible by your support.
0:05.5	From research to radio, we're here because of you.
0:08.6	Show your love and donate at wayward radio.org
0:13.0	slash donate. Thank you.
0:15.8	You're listening to A Way With Words,
0:17.4	the show about language and how we use it.
0:19.4	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:20.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:21.6	It's not every day that I save a tweet and come back to it again and again.
0:25.0	But I have one from a public service assistant for the Toronto Public Library. Her name is June Herr, and she tweeted this.
0:35.0	At the library, a kid patron came up to me at the desk, asked me where she could find more
0:39.9	mystery books, said she'd read her first mystery and had loved it so much.
0:45.1	So I led her over to the middle grade mystery series section.
0:48.9	She placed a hand over her heart and whispered, oh my gosh.
0:55.0	She was delighted to find the world had more of what she wanted from it.
0:58.0	Yes, yes, and I can just relate to that on so many different levels, just that moment of realizing what a library
1:05.1	contains. I remember very well going to the library and realizing you'll let me check
1:08.8	out 12 books at one time so I could actually have enough to read over the weekend. Check out 12
1:14.8	books on a Friday and you were set till Monday. Oh my gosh and I feel that way too
1:18.8	about doing a show about language you know people think oh it's about grammar and correcting grammar.
1:24.0	No there's so much more. It's about the possibilities of language.
1:28.0	How much there is in this big cabinet.
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