Sour Pickle (Rebroadcast) - 23 June 2025

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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You know that Yogi Berra quote about how Nobody ever comes here; it's too crowded? Actually, the first person to use this was actress Suzanne Ridgeway, who appeared in several movies with The Three Stooges. A new book shows that many well-known quotes were first spoken by women, but misattributed to more famous men. Also: a handy scientific word that should become mainstream: aliquot. And no, it's not a kind of hybrid fruit. Plus, an astronomical question: What's the collective noun for a group of black holes? A sink of black holes? A baffle? A vacancy? All that, plus Old Arthur, biffy, bowery, mikka bozu, Sauregurkenzeit, out of heart, vergüenza, and how to talk with children about a painful topic. 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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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:30.1	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.6	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.7	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.2	On our Facebook group, BC Cornish, asks,
0:39.4	is there a phrase or word in English that conveys the idea of buying an object and then using the
0:45.6	object for a lesser purpose or an unintended purpose, e.g. buying a treadmill and then using it to hang
0:52.7	clothes. And Grant, I don't know that there's one singular word for that kind of experience,
0:58.4	but it does remind me of a really cool Japanese expression that I came across just the other
1:04.4	day, which is Mika Bosu.
1:07.4	And Mika Bosu literally means three-day monk.
1:11.1	And it refers to the kind of person who starts an idea, you know, they get all excited about something.
1:17.7	Maybe they buy a language app and they're going to become fluent in this or that language.
1:21.7	Or they get all excited about some fitness program or diet.
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