Sundog - 15 October 2018
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
A Way with Words
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🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:27.8 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. I wanted to share an email we got from Carrie Van Ornam, |
| 0:38.7 | who lives in Wapaca, Wisconsin. She writes, we were all in the car listening to your show on the way to the |
| 0:45.8 | State Fair and Aidan, my 11 year old, brought up a memory from when he was probably |
| 0:51.3 | about five years old. |
| 0:53.2 | He was describing to me some acrobatic act, |
| 0:56.2 | asking me if I can do one. |
| 0:58.2 | His words were confusing me. |
| 1:00.2 | Mom, can you do a winter pepper? |
| 1:03.0 | I was stumped, after much explaining and him showing me a regular |
| 1:07.4 | somersault and then saying, but backwards, it finally dawned on me a backwards summer salt is a winter pepper. |
| 1:17.6 | Just the opposite of summer is winter and the opposite of salt, his pepper. |
| 1:22.6 | That's nice. |
| 1:23.8 | Isn't that nice? |
| 1:24.8 | And did he earnestly, honestly, believe that that was the word for it or did he just |
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