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Shakespeare's Insults - 1 June 2015

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 1 June 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it like Shakespeare: Thou unhandsome smush-mouthed mush-rump! Thou obscene rug-headed hornbeast! The Shakespeare Insult Generator helps you craft creative zingers by mixing and matching the Bard’s own words–perfect for the wanton swag-bellied underskinker in your life. Plus, how do you feel when you say “Thank you” and the person replies “No problem”? That response bothers many people–but should it? Plus, what happens when a married couple doesn’t gee-haw together? Also: the origins of shimmy and smidge, ham-and-egger, a techie word quiz, double possessives, and enough food to feed Coxey’s army.  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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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett

0:36.0

Grant you thresonical self-glorious hornbeast

0:39.8

I beg your part you aepish leptus leering abomination.

0:45.0

All true, but I don't know what it means.

0:48.0

I am having so much fun with this book called the Shakespeare Insult generator.

0:54.2

Oh boy, they made that just for you.

0:56.2

One copy it says Martha Barnett on the front.

0:58.7

I think he's got your name inside.

1:01.4

It's by Barry Craft K-R-A-F-T. He is a Shakespearean actor himself and he's done this really

1:10.0

ingenious thing. He's made this flip book that has 54 pages and each page is actually

1:16.2

broken into three flippable cards which means that you can mix and match them and

1:22.1

these are all insults that Shakespeare used insulting

1:25.8

words and you you have potentially a hundred fifty thousand

1:30.1

combinations that you think yes yes by flipping the various cards so you get all these

1:35.7

three element combinations like grant you lumpish mouse-eaten geech? That's outstanding. It's really wonderful and one of the things I

1:47.1

really like about it is that it's teaching me all these words I didn't know

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