Why Do Girls Wear Pink? - 24 October 2011
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🗓️ 23 October 2011
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, |
| 0:04.6 | which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket. Deo graphical and other restrictions, min spend £60 on charge to supply, discount available on food, new customers only, max saving £20,000. Terms atacado.com. Even though you're listening to this on podcast and not on the air, |
| 0:23.3 | you can still call our toll-free number 877929-9673, |
| 0:27.9 | and you can still send us email to Words at waywardradio.org, |
| 0:31.7 | and you can still find us online at waywardradio.org. |
| 0:41.6 | Thank you. online at wayward radio.org. You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:44.2 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:45.6 | Well, it happened again. |
| 0:47.1 | The other day, I loaded a new version of a software program on my computer. |
| 0:51.2 | But now, instead of being an improvement, it's doing things I don't like. I'd rather have the old version of the software grant. You've had this experience. Yes, a downgrade. You pay for the privilege of downgrading. Like, why did I bother? Yeah, why did I bother? Two hours, 60 bucks, waste of my time. And you may remember that on a recent show, we talked about this phenomenon, and I suggested the verb |
| 1:10.9 | new Coke. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, right? |
| 1:13.2 | A reference to Coca-Cola's disastrous dalliance with that terrible, terrible tasting new |
| 1:18.6 | Coke. |
| 1:19.2 | I suggested we use it as a verb. |
| 1:21.6 | Like, that new version of the program really new-coked my computer, and a lot of people |
| 1:26.0 | wrote in and said they really liked that idea. |
| 1:28.5 | They needed it. |
| 1:29.2 | There was a linguistic gap, electrical gap. |
| 1:31.7 | But several of you sent other suggestions for an upgrade that's actually a step backward. |
| 1:36.1 | Andrew Bernick wrote to say he liked the word decovery. |
| 1:41.0 | Playing on recovery. |
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