Takes the Cake - 8 May 2023

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What do you call a long sandwich filled with lots of ingredients? Whether you call it a sub, a hoagie, a grinder, or something else entirely depends on where you’re from. And: Martha’s visit to an Alaskan reindeer ranch reveals why you really do hear click, click, click when reindeer walk, and how these elegant animals got their name. Plus, if it’s time to dodo your baby, what will you need to do next? Also, whippersnapper, rangiferine, sidesaddle gift, a quiz about missing links, gatsby, spuckie, garibaldi, haint blue, take the cake, Zep, yampy, defulgaty and cafugelty, and the polite riposte More tea, vicar? 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	Looking for ways to use less fuel?
0:02.0	At SO, we can help.
0:03.6	Small changes we can make today
0:05.2	can start to help win the energy challenges we all face.
0:08.4	Like your choice of fuel,
0:09.9	making the fuel you buy go further
0:11.6	and even finding alternatives to using it in the first place.
0:15.2	We call this Thoughtful Driving.
0:17.6	The journey won't be easy,
0:18.9	but we want to start it with you.
0:20.9	Not what you're expecting to hear from a fuel company.
0:23.7	Well, at SO, we think it's time that changed.
0:26.3	Search SO Thoughtful Driving for changes we can all start to make today.
0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words,
0:31.6	the show about language and how we use it.
0:34.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.0	Grant, do you remember a movie from the 1980s called The Dresser?
0:41.7	It starred Albert Finney as a Shakespearean actor
0:45.1	and Tom Courtney as his dresser that is the guy
0:47.8	who helps him get ready to go on stage each night?
0:50.5	Does that ring a bell?
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