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2026. You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. Well, it seems everybody's talking about the weather, particularly in places that are really hot.

And I've been tired of saying the same things over and over, but I've found a couple of handy new words that I'm going to start using.

One of them is from the Scottish National Dictionary, and it's obsolete, but I think

it's high time to bring it back. That word is glorgi. G-L-O-R-G-Y, glorgie. Glorg. This sounds like a

Scandinavian alcoholic drink that the Vikings had. This is what they feed, this is where they serve

you at Valhalla, right?

That might help you cool off when the weather is glorgie, because glorgie means sultry,

and the Scottish National Dictionary says it's applied to a warm, suffocating day with a darkened sun. So it was a

glorgie simmer's afternoon. Probably comes from an old word meaning soft mud.

And the other word that I really love is pothery, P-O-T-H-E-R-Y. Pothery. It means humid, sultry, or

close. It's an English dialectal term, and I really like it. It's pothery out there. It's too pothery to do anything.

You keep using the word sultry, but this isn't the sexy sultry, is it?

No, no, no. This is the sweltering sultry. In fact, I think those two words are etymologically related, sweltering and sultry.

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