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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. And Grant, I am so bummed.

Oh, what happened?

I have a Winklehawk in my pants.

You have one of the Winklefoss twins in your pants?

No, no, no. The guys who sued Facebook are in your pants?

I'm not even going to go there. I have a winkle hawk in my jeans. Grant, that is an L-shaped tear. Oh, you ever get that? I know what you're talking about. If you catch it on a nail or something sharp, right? Right, and it's perfectly L-shaped, and then you have to snip your... A winkle hawk. A winkle hawk. How do you spell that?

That is W-I-N-K-L-E-H-A-W-K.

And I would not have known of this word except that we got an email from Christine Coonert from Delafield, Wisconsin, who pointed out that although this word isn't in all dictionaries,

it's in at least one obscure 19th century dictionary, and it comes from apparently a Dutch term

for a carpenter's L-shaped tool.

Oh, very good.

Like they're square, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I just, you know, every time I learn a word like this grant, it, honestly, it makes me feel connected.

It makes me feel the same feeling that I get if I'm hiking along a trail and I see that somebody was there before me.

Right.

You know, there's just, there's just something about somebody seeing something and remarking on it and thinking enough of it to make a word out of it. And they leave it behind for you. Yeah, for the rest of us. Like to leave a penny, take a penny at the register, right? Yeah, yeah. So now I have a winklehawk in my pants. That's pretty interesting. It speaks kind of just to the native understanding that we have of language that you, somebody else must have had a need for that. Yes's common sense do you know what another word for common sense is common sense i feel a little foolish i just came across this yeah mother wit mott h-h-e-r-w-t-w-t-t-t and it's the natural ability to cope with everyday life or just just common sense and i was like, bingo, right there we go, Mother Witt, right?

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