Whistle Britches (Rebroadcast) - 7 March 2016

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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Writers and where they do their best creative work. A new book on Geoffrey Chaucer describes the dark, cramped, smelly room where he wrote his early work. Which raises the question: What kind of space do you need to produce your best writing? Also, Texas football lingo, and the perfect smart-aleck remark for those times when you can't remember the answer to a question. Plus, how slang terms popular in African-American culture, like bling bling, bae, and on fleek find their way into the mainstream English. Also, salt and pepper cellars, itch a scratch vs. scratch an itch, "sick abed on two chairs," a new word for nieces and nephews, "the Jimmies and the Joes," aimless walks on Nantucket, and Dadisms. 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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0:28.0	You're listening to A Way With Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.0	And I'm Martha Barnett. I was talking recently with my friend Cindy about some expressions that her father used to use.
0:41.0	He came from the Piney Woods of East Texas and whenever there was a
0:45.1	lull in the conversation or he wanted to tweak somebody he would use these
0:49.2	little trademark phrases that probably wouldn't mean that much to other people but to his family it just
0:54.9	cracked them up one of them was do you live around here do you ride a bicycle?
0:59.1	I don't what what does that even mean right and if if they would say come on
1:07.9	dad let's go let's get ready he said I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.
1:13.4	And they call those expressions memisms because that was his name.
1:18.0	His grandson couldn't pronounce his name.
1:20.0	I was thinking that every family has mem right didn't didn't you have yeah my
1:24.6	father's got a thing that he says he's uh 74 now and he's got this bunch of these
1:29.5	dumb things that he says and some of them are dadisms right yeah it's yeah my
1:35.4	hair is wavy one hair stands up and waves to the other and anytime somebody
1:40.2	mentions hair it's like it's cues him to say that.
1:43.3	Isn't that funny and it's so corny? I'm sure I'm developing dadisms too for my son. I
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