You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it on Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. Do you remember the first big word you learned, the one that you just

couldn't stop saying after you learned it? Gerald Blonden asked that question on our Facebook group

and he said that for him he was about four or five years old and the word was conflagration,

meaning a big fire, his grandmother taught him that word. And I was thinking about that grant,

the first big word that I learned was logical. Logical. To me I was a tiny kid and I think it was

from Sylvester the cat, the cartoons where he would say that sounds logical. And so I would walk

around, you know, I think diapers, you know, saying that sounds logical. And then my dad was a

professor at a theological seminary. So theological came very quickly after that. So I would just,

you know, walk around a little thing saying theological. My little Martha, same theological.

Yeah, how about you, do you remember your first big word? I don't, I remember my first four letter

word. Talk to me on the back of the school bus by another naughty child. Oh, that's a whole other

segment, isn't it? Yeah, so I want to begin with F. Yes, we'll talk about that person to person

one of our live shows maybe. But if you'd like to talk to us about the long word that you learned

and what it meant to you, eight, seven, seven, nine, two, nine, nine, six, seven, three, or email us words

at waywardradio.org or go or talk to us on Twitter at W-A-Y-W-O-R-D. Hello, you have a way with words.

Hello, Grant. This is Erica Smith. Hi, Erica, what are you calling from?

I'm calling from Troich, me to say I'm curious to know if the phrase out in the boonese and the word

boondocks originated or have anything to do with Daniel Boone, especially since this is kind

of a common phrase in the South. Is there any correlation? Well, Erica, we can tell you that that is

just a coincidence. They just sound similar. Well, I guess I can ask to the word boonese and

boonocks, maybe something? Yes, yes. And boonocks comes from the Tagalog language of the Philippines.

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