Takes All Kinds - 18 December 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
A Way with Words
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:27.8 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Doing crossword puzzles is a great mental exercise, |
| 0:40.4 | and one of the reasons that these puzzles are such a good workout for your brain is that crosswords are less about what you know and more about how you think about what you know. |
| 0:51.0 | For example, if I need a three-letter word and the clue is, |
| 0:55.0 | it has a certain ring to it, the answer is tub. |
| 1:00.0 | It has a certain ring to it. Oh, you it's the dirty ring of soap and and stuff that's left when you're washing the top got it |
| 1:07.1 | Yes, yes, so you look at that word ring and you have to think about it in a different way. Or, for example, if you need a four letter word |
| 1:14.7 | that means dog holders. |
| 1:17.9 | Dog holders, four letter word. |
| 1:21.1 | Four letters. |
| 1:22.4 | Pause? |
| 1:24.0 | Maybe the one I was looking for was Buns. |
| 1:28.0 | It's a different kind of dog. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, hot dog holders, Buns. |
| 1:31.0 | Haha. |
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