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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Sufficiently Suffonsified (rebroadcast) - 31 Jan. 2011

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What’s in a pet’s name? Martha and Grant swap stories about how they came up with names for their dogs. Also this week: Have you ever been called a stump-jumper? How about a snicklefritz? And what’s the last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you consult, it might be zythum, zyzzyva, zyxomma, or zyxt.  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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Hey podcast listener, even though you're hearing this recorded show, you can still call us whenever you want.

0:36.0

1-877 929-967-969-96-73. Our voicemail will take your call. Later, we'll listen to it just as we listen to all of them,

0:45.0

and then there's always a chance that we'll decide to have you on the show to ask your question

0:48.9

or share your story.

0:50.8

On with the show. You're listening to Away with Words, I'm Grant Barrett.

0:57.0

And I'm Martha Barnett.

1:01.0

Most of us tend to keep the names that were given at birth, but with pets

1:04.9

it's kind of a different story. Sometimes animals take time to tell you their

1:09.0

names. When my partner and I adopted a little white Maltese poodle mix, it was hard for us to settle on one name.

1:15.6

Her previous owner called her Mitzi, but we didn't like that.

1:18.8

And then for a while we were going back and forth between the names Daisy and Lily and both of those names

1:24.3

kind of reflect her sunny personality and the fact that she's tiny and delicate in fact

1:29.1

she's so tiny grant that for a while there we were going to call her Kukaracha

1:31.8

but we decided against that but she's about that big and it actually took us a whole month before we decided on the name Lily and I think that that was really mainly just because it tripped off the tongue more easily when you wanted to say,

1:45.0

Lily, no!

1:48.0

You know what I mean?

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