Up Your Alley - 30 July 2018

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Book recommendations, including a collection of short stories inspired by dictionaries, and a techno-thriller for teens. Or, how about novels with an upbeat message? Publishers call this genre up lit. Plus, a clergyman ponders an arresting phrase in the book Peter Pan: What does the author mean when he says that children can be “gay and innocent and heartless”? And, if you spend money freely, you are a dingthrift. Also, waterfalling, pegan, up a gump stump, spendthrift, vice, cabochon, cultural cringe, welsh, and neat but not gaudy. 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/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	You're listening to Away with Words, this show, about language and how we use it.
0:33.5	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.2	Grant, let's say it's a hot day and you're drinking from a water bottle and I'm really thirsty.
0:41.5	What if I said, hey, can I get a swig?
0:43.4	Alberti.
0:44.4	I don't know.
0:45.4	What is that?
0:46.4	It means I'll drink the water without putting my mouth to your bottle or your glass.
0:53.0	So to stop the spread of germs.
0:55.0	Oh nice.
0:56.0	Oh, you're still getting my backwash.
0:58.0	Right?
1:01.0	I hadn't thought about that. There should be another word for that.
1:04.0	But wait a second. So there's a term for taking a drink out of someone else's water bottle without putting your lips on the container.
1:10.0	Yeah, yeah. You might you might hand the bottle to me and say make sure you birdie it.
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