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A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he picked up along the way. For example, the word spanging is a blend of the words spare and changing, and means “panhandling.” Plus, what does the doggie say? The sound of a dog barking is often written as bow wow. But why? Doesn’t barking sound more like ruff ruff? Plus, slang on the ski slopes, boodling, a jazzy pangram, larruping good food, avoir le moral dans les chaussettes, a quiz about puzzling store names, ride or die, a clever answer for when someone inquires as to how you’re doing, and lots more. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email [email protected]. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	forward slash express. You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language, and how is it?
0:34.7	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:38.7	And one of the things that gets Grant and me really excited is workplace slang.
0:44.7	And we love getting examples of this from our listeners.
0:48.0	And we got some from Ned Green, who shared with us some of the vocabulary from his workplace, which includes escargo, boilerplate, and death cookies.
0:59.5	This is a French restaurant, right?
1:02.3	Escargo?
1:03.6	Cookies?
1:05.1	Chicken?
1:07.5	No.
1:08.8	Ned is a member of the ski patrol at Sugarbush Resort in northern Vermont. Oh, famous. Yeah,
1:15.1	classic ski place. Sure. Uh-huh. Right. And one of the terms they use is escargo. He says that at the end of
1:22.1	the ski day, we sweep the mountain by skiing every trail after the chairlifts have closed, looking for stray guests.
1:29.5	And so if they have to radio each other to let them know that there's somebody still up on the
1:34.3	mountain, you know, they'll say we have some escargo here.
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