Sock it to Me (Rebroadcast) - 18 November 2024

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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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/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. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	You're listening to Away With Words to Show About Language and How We Use It.
0:30.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:31.3	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:32.5	Hey, Grant, thank you so much for sending me that collection of slang from the sporting news in the 19, what was it,
0:38.2	1933? Oh yeah, the baseball slang from 1933. I knew you'd love that. It's just the thing we like
0:44.6	to sit back and forth, isn't it? I know. Baseball is just this endless repository of fantastic
0:50.7	slang. It's so poetic. I love, for example, fishing trip, which is swinging at a bad ball.
0:57.4	He took a fishing trip. That's totally what they're doing. It's just like throwing the bad out there, just kind of trying to hit any junk that comes their way.
1:04.5	Right. And sometimes they end up with a line drive to the catcher. That's when they miss the third strike. A line drive to the catcher.
1:15.3	Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, but somebody who's really good is going to pour on the pine. They're
1:20.4	going to hit that ball really solidly. Pour on the pine. And one that really jumped out at me
1:26.5	was the term collisions. Oh, yeah. I think we've mentioned that on the show. And one that really jumped out at me was the term collisions.
1:28.6	Oh, yeah.
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