You Bet Your Boots (Rebroadcast) - 27 August 2018

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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You may have heard the advice that to build your vocabulary you should read, read, and then read some more--and make sure to include a wide variety of publications. But what if you just don't have that kind of time? Martha and Grant show how to learn new words by making the most of the time you do have. Also, when new words are added to a dictionary, do others get removed to make room? Plus, words of encouragement, words of exasperation, and a polite Japanese way to say goodbye when a co-worker leaves at the end of the day. Also, you bet your boots, the worm has turned, raise hell and put a chunk under it, bread and butter, on tomorrow, a love letter to libraries and an apology to marmots. 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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0:27.8	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.0	And this week I want to start the show with an apology.
0:38.0	Oh.
0:39.0	You remember the call we had from John, he lived in in Tennessee and he wanted to talk about
0:44.3	whistle pigs the term whistle pig and and how that's another name for Groundhog
0:49.0	well in that call I mentioned marmets and I said that they were small and mouse-like.
0:57.0	And we got an email from David Bainbridge in Miramesa, California.
1:01.9	And David writes,
1:03.0	You have slandered marmets by saying they are small and mouse-like.
1:07.0	Our Western marmets are magnificent creatures,
1:10.0	lovely golden fur and chunky, up to 12 pounds.
1:15.0	They do whistle.
1:17.0	I've watched them at work, asleep in the sun,
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