Stub Your Toe - 19 December 2022

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Advice about college essays from the winner of a top prize for children’s literature: Kelly Barnhill encourages teens to write about experiences that are uniquely their own, from a point of view that is theirs and no one else’s. Plus, why do we say that someone who’s fortunate has the luck of the Irish? And the latest edition of the Official Scrabble Dictionary will liven up your game! Now you can rack up points with words pranayama, fauxhawk, and even embiggen. Also, knockin’ dog, a word puzzle about knights who never were, will-o’-the-wisp and jack-o’-lantern, a ver and umbers, squidding, oligopoly, and punished water. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to away with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:04.3	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett, the brand new 7th edition of the official
0:10.0	Scrabble Players Dictionary is now out and Grant has been embigand with 500 new words.
0:16.2	Embigand is that one of the words they added? It is indeed. You can play embigand now.
0:21.9	What else did they add? Well, there are all kinds of great words that you can play now. You can
0:26.5	play pranayama, which is the yogic practice of controlling your breath. And it added egg corn?
0:35.0	Oh, egg corn. That's a great linguistics term. That's when you miss here something,
0:38.7	but you miss here. There's something that sounds very reasonable. Exactly. Like, for example,
0:43.1	somebody says, oh, it was spreading like wildflowers. You know, the correct phrase is spreading
0:48.8	like wildfire beds. Spreading like wildflowers is a lovely image. And also one of the really
0:55.3	high scoring words that you could play with this new official dictionary is the word fohawk.
1:02.3	Fohawk. Oh, I think I had that in my dictionary that I put out in 2006. It's not a real mohawk,
1:09.8	but it's your haircut where it sticks up in the middle. Well, we do love talking about dictionaries.
1:15.2	And we love talking with you about language. Call us toll-free in the United States and Canada
1:21.1	877-929-9673. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, this is Mary from Flagler Beach, Florida.
1:28.8	Welcome to the show. Well, for many years, we lived in St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
1:35.0	And the cruisioners, Virgin Islanders, had this funny thing when they had too much to eat or drink.
1:41.4	Like you would say, hey, Joe, how was your Thanksgiving? He'd say, girl, wait and drink like knock-in-dog.
1:48.8	And I never knew what that meant. And I was wondering if you had any clue.
1:52.1	Oh, I love this question. I lived on St. Croix for six months.
1:55.6	Knock-in-dog. It meant that you, I think you ate so much. You were just fallen over like, I don't know.
2:00.9	Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's about abundance. And nobody's quite sure why it means abundance,
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