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Word Jocks, Lettered in Language - 17 Aug. 2008

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Society & Culture, Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Pass the Gatorade! Martha and Grant work up a sweat in this episode as they tackle a sports quiz and lob vocabulary questions back and forth. They also settle a family dispute about the pronunciation of eco-friendly and unlock the etymology of skeleton key.  Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:23.8

Engineered to do it all. That's Martha Barnett. And I'm Grand Barrett.

0:39.6

And Martha, I see that you've been wasting a lot of time with the free rice game again.

0:44.0

I have indeed we receive several emails about this site. It's called free rice

0:48.3

dot com and that's freeze and gratis and rice as in grain it was started by a guy named John Green and he lives in Bloomington, Indiana and he's a computer programmer who works with an anti-poverty organization.

1:00.0

And John noticed that his 15 year old son was bored studying for his SATs, so he combined

1:06.0

both of those things into an online vocabulary quiz that's underwritten by major advertisers.

1:11.7

And so for every answer you get right those companies

1:14.6

pay for one grain of rice to be donated to a United Nations food program and

1:19.0

I have to say that the quiz is pretty darned addictive so grant I thought that while we're on the air you and I could have a little rice off between the two of us.

1:27.0

Ah ha! How about that? Let's do it. Okay, I'll pick a word I saw on the site and asked you for the definition.

1:33.2

How about Ram Pike, R-A-M-P-I-K-E, does that mean A, Standing Dead Tree, B, Quicksilver, C- Eyglass, or D Custodian, Ram Pike.

1:47.0

The, the tree?

1:48.0

How did you know?

1:50.0

I have no idea, Pike is the clue, I guess.

1:52.0

Mm, Very good.

1:53.0

Because a Pike is a pole, right?

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