Sock it to Me - 16 November 2020

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the 15th century, the word respair meant “to have hope again.” Although this word fell out of use, it’s among dozens collected in a new book of soothing vocabulary for troubled times. Plus, baseball slang: If a batter doesn’t pour the pine,” an outfielder may snag a can of corn, or “an easily caught fly ball.” And the 1960s TV show “Laugh-In” spawned lots of catchphrases, such as Sock it to me and You bet your sweet bippy. Don’t know them? Well, Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls! Plus tiffin, worldcraft, cultellation, backslash vs. forward slash, come-heres, bi-weekly a witty word game that’s much ado about nothing, and 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	You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it.
0:03.4	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:05.8	Hey Grant, thank you so much for sending me that collection of slang from the
0:09.6	sporting news in the 19, what was it, 1933? Oh oh yeah the baseball slang from 1933 that was I knew
0:16.0	you'd love that it's just the thing we we like to sit back and forth isn't it I know
0:20.0	baseball is just this endless repository of fantastic slang.
0:24.8	It's so poetic.
0:26.0	I love for example, fishing trip, which is swinging at a bad ball.
0:30.8	He took a fishing trip.
0:32.3	That's totally what to do. They're just like throwing the bat out there. bad ball. He took a fishing trip. Yeah, you're like,
0:33.0	that's totally what to do.
0:34.0	They're just like throwing the bad out there,
0:35.0	just kind of trying to hit any junk that comes their way.
0:38.0	Right.
0:39.0	And sometimes they end up with a line drive to the catcher.
0:42.0	That's when they missed the third strike a line
0:47.6	drive to the catcher yeah that's awesome yeah but but somebody who's really good is
0:52.0	gonna pour on the pine.
0:53.8	They're going to hit that ball really solidly.
0:56.3	Pour on the pine.
0:58.3	And one that really jumped out at me was the term collisions.
1:02.1	Oh yeah, I think we've mentioned that on the show before that's an
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