Red Light, Green Light (minicast) - 17 Aug. 2011

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 17 August 2011

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Hot traffic talk! A caller is looking for a word for the point at which you have to reach in order to make it through a stoplight before it turns red. -- A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate Site: http://waywordradio.org/ Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	words.
0:44.0	Welcome to
0:45.0	Welcome to another mini-cast from a way with words.
0:52.0	I'm Martha Barnett. On an earlier
0:56.6	episode we asked you to send us words that you thought ought to be a part of the English
1:01.1	language and we heard from a fellow named Nathaniel, he's from Chula Vista, California, and he wasn't sure if there was a word for this particular phenomenon or not. Now picture this. you're driving along and you're approaching a
1:14.9	traffic light. Is there a term for the point in your path you have to reach in
1:20.6	order to beat that light?
1:23.4	Shouldn't there be a term for this sweet spot on the road?
1:26.7	Nathaniel called us to talk about it.
1:29.0	Here in Chula Vista, when I drive to work, I pass through about 15 traffic lights in his many minutes.
1:36.4	You stop I hope when they're red.
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