Sunny Side Up (Rebroadcast) - 12 June 2017

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🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:30.3	you're listening to a way with words the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.4	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett, and it's time for baseball slang.
0:37.6	Dda da da da da da da da.
0:38.8	What's a snow cone?
0:40.2	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	Or in the pocket, right?
0:52.0	Exactly, exactly, where it sort of works its way up so that it's just barely sticking out
0:56.3	but it still counts is a catch even though it's not it does indeed well let me try this
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