Sunny Side Up - 24 October 2016

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Baseball has a language all its own: On the diamond, a snow cone isn’t what you think it is, and three blind mice has nothing to do with nursery rhymes. And how do you describe someone who works at home while employed by a company in another city? Are they telecommuters? Remote workers? One writer wants to popularize a new term for this modern phenomenon: working in place. Also, a powerful essay on white privilege includes a vivid new metaphor for the pain of accumulated slights over a lifetime: chandelier pain. Plus, sunny side up eggs, count nouns, bluebird weather, harp on, think tank, thought box, and how to remember to spell Mississippi. 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	Make match days easy with Google Pay.
0:03.0	When the last train before kickoff leaves in five,
0:05.0	tap in with your Android phone to catch it.
0:09.0	No stress.
0:12.0	And if the queue for the merch store means extra time, tap to pay faster than you can say,
0:17.8	come on England.
0:19.8	Fast, safe, simple.
0:23.0	Match days made easy with Google Pay.
0:26.0	Add a card to Google Wallet.
0:30.0	You're listening to A Way With Words,
0:31.0	The Show About Language and how we use it.
0:33.4	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.4	And I'm Martha Barnett, and it's time for baseball slang.
0:37.6	That's a snow cone.
0:40.6	Um, that's a ball that gets called on the fingertips of the glove.
0:45.0	Yes!
0:46.0	Ha ha!
0:47.0	Did you know that or were you just guessing?
0:49.0	You did, really?
0:50.0	Instead of in the basket, right?
0:51.0	Right, or in the pocket, right?
0:52.0	Exactly, exactly, or it sort of works its way up so that it's just
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