Tiger Tail (Rebroadcast) - 10 June 2024

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A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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You may have a favorite word in English, but what about your favorite in another language? The Spanish term ojala is especially handy for expressing hopefulness and derives from Arabic for "God willing." In Trinidad, if you want to ask friends to hang out with you, invite them to go liming. Nobody's sure about this word's origin, although it may indeed have to do with the tart green fruit. And: a story about a traveler who finds that children in Siberia use different words to say the sound an animal makes. English speakers imitate a rooster with cock-a-doodle-doo, but in Siberia, children learn to say something that sounds like "koh-kock-a-REE!" The sounds we attribute to other creatures vary from language to language, even if they're all the same to the animals. Plus, a brain teaser about subtracting letters, saditty, bundu, potpie, bubbler, words misheard, the plural of squash, and a poem about slowing down and paying attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.2	words the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm
1:10.9	Martha Barnett. Grant you and I are often asked what our favorite word is.
1:15.0	Yes.
1:16.0	And I like to throw out Malifluous and preposterous.
1:19.0	But I realize that I'm usually throwing out words in English and maybe it's time we shared words in different languages.
1:27.0	So what's your ancient Greek one?
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