South End of a Chicken (Rebroadcast) - 12 August 2013

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🗓️ 11 August 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Are your nightstand books all over the place? Why not stack ’em into a bookmash? A bookmash is a kind of found poetry formed from book titles! And we all know that honesty is the best policy. But does that mean you should correct the grammar of your daughter’s teacher? Plus, texting lingo in everyday speech, the proper use of the word penultimate, and what the south end of a chicken flying north means. And what’s up with pedantic fellow having to mansplain everything? 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 ⁠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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0:00.0	You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. One of the fun things about having books besides reading them is making what's called a bookmash. Now, Grant, you know what these are. These are when you stack the books with their spines facing out so that their titles create a kind of found poetry. I was reminded of this when I was reading the blog called Sentence First. You know this one. It's by Stan
0:21.1	Carey, who's based in Ireland and blogs about language. And lately, he's been posting photos of book
0:26.5	mashes. And I enjoy them because they're often oddly poetic. I mean, you have to picture this
0:31.1	pile of books. He had a photograph of this on his site. On the top is a book called Don't Sleep,
0:36.4	There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett. And underneath that is a book called Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett,
0:38.7	and underneath that is a book called Bugs by Theater Rozac. And then there are four other books.
0:44.0	And if you go down this stack, the titles read sort of like a poem. It goes, don't sleep. There are
0:50.2	snakes, bugs, creatures of the earth, in the shadow of man, myth makers and lawbreakers defining the world.
0:58.6	Oh, that is nice.
1:00.0	Yeah, and you know that last book.
1:00.8	Found a poetry, definitely.
1:02.2	Defining the world by Henry Hitchings.
1:04.4	After I looked at Stan's blog, I happened to glance up at my own bookshelf and I turn my head sideways and I could already see this accidental bookmash taking shape. And it started with Dave Wilton's book word myths. So here's
1:16.4	my accidental bookmash grant. Check it out. Word myths. Grammatically correct. The language
1:22.6	of flowers getting things done. Nice.
1:29.3	What does your bookmash look like?
1:37.9	Give us a call 877-929-9673, or you can send a picture in email to Words at Waywardradio.org.
1:39.9	Hello, you have a way with words.
1:43.1	Hi, this is Neil Morgan. I'm Sherman, Texas.
1:46.1	Welcome to the show, Neil. Well, thank you. What's going on?
2:02.0	Well, I have an expression that comes from my wife's family, and I don't know if it just originated in their family, or if it is something regional from the Mobile area where her parents grew up.
2:03.2	Oh, good. We love these.
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