Whistle Pig (Rebroadcast) - 6 August 2018

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The stories behind slang, political and otherwise. The dated term "jingoism" denotes a kind of belligerent nationalism. But the word's roots lie in an old English drinking-house song that was popular during wartime. Speaking of fightin' words, the expression "out the side of your neck" came up in a feud between Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa--and let's just say the phrase is hardly complimentary. Finally, a German publishing company has declared that the top slang term among that country's youth is a name for someone who's completely absorbed in his cell phone. That word is...Smombie! And if you're guessing that Smombie comes from "zombie," you're right. Plus, thaw vs. unthaw, dinner vs. supper, groundhog vs. whistle pig, riddles galore, speed bumps and sleeping policemen, pirooting around, and kick into touch. Listen to all episodes for free: https://waywordradio.org/ Support the show to keep episodes coming: https://waywordradio.org/donate Your responses, questions, and comments are welcomed at any time! https://waywordradio.org/contact [email protected] Listener line 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the US and Canada Text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673 Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. All rights reserved. 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 to show about language and how you use it.
0:33.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.2	And I'm Martha Barnett, and I have a riddle for you.
0:37.4	Okay, yeah, yeah.
0:38.7	I'm thinking of a five-letter word, you take away the first letter, and the word still sounds the same.
0:46.7	You take away the last letter, and the word still sounds the same.
0:52.2	You can even take away the letter in the very middle and it still
0:56.6	sounds the same. What in the world could that word be? Well it's not Q
1:01.6	because if you take off the Q at the beginning, it doesn't sound like cue anymore.
1:05.0	We have u.
1:06.0	Mm-hmm.
1:08.0	Let's see, oh, I probably knew this at one time, I don't know.
1:13.4	The word is empty, E MPT Y.
1:17.5	You take away the first letter, you still have mm-tte.
1:21.0	You take away the last letter, you still have MT, and you take away the letter in the middle, you take
1:26.6	away the P and you still have MT.
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