Stub Your Toe (Rebroadcast) - 1 June 2026

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 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. 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	Attention all passengers.
0:04.2	The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.
0:10.5	Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.
0:17.9	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:21.6	Trains on Uber.
0:23.5	You're listening to Away with Words, The Show About Language and How We Use It.
0:27.8	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:29.1	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:30.8	The brand new seventh edition of the official Scrabble Players Dictionary is now out.
0:35.9	And Grant has been embigined with 500 new words.
0:39.9	Ambigand, is that one of the words they added?
0:42.0	It is indeed.
0:43.4	You can play embigand now.
0:45.3	What else did they add?
0:46.8	Well, there are all kinds of great words that you can play now.
0:49.7	You can play Pranayama, which is the yogic practice of controlling your breath.
0:55.5	And it added egg corn.
0:58.5	Oh, egg corn.
0:59.2	That's a great linguistics term.
1:00.5	That's when you mishear something, but you mishear it as something that sounds very reasonable.
1:05.0	Exactly.
1:05.8	Like, for example, somebody says, oh, it was spreading like wildflowers.
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