Your Two Cents - 7 December 2020

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Astronauts returning from space say they experience what's called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our need to reflect on what humans all share as a species. A book about the end of the universe offers a similar change in perspective -- along with some fascinating language. Plus, a recipe for a delicious drink: one part lemonade, one part sweet tea. A famous golfer loved it. And why do we say That's my two cents after offering an opinion? Would it be better to say That's my one cent? Also, GUTs vs. TOEs, how to pronounce buoy, pore over vs. pour over, wally, a surprising pronunciation of prestige, piker, is all, and a brain-teaser about orphan syllables. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. 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	Teachers around the world at every grade level use away with words and classrooms as a launching pad for discussion.
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0:16.6	You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:21.5	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Grant I've been reading a book in a field I know almost
0:27.2	nothing about and there's a whole lot in this book about guts and toes.
0:31.8	You mean guts like my innards and toes like the
0:36.0	little things at the end of my feet? Actually no! Spelled the same way,
0:40.5	G-U-T-T and T-O-E, bought their acronyms.
0:45.0	Oh, acronyms.
0:47.0	T-O-E, top of Everest.
0:51.0	I don't know. G-U-T, get under table, that's earthquake advice, right?
0:59.8	I don't know, what are they, what is it, what are you learning about Martha it's always something new
1:03.8	this is a book about cosmology gut is a physicist term for grand unified
1:11.6	theory and to to to eat for Grand Unified Theory, and Toe, you probably remember Stephen Hawking talking about this.
1:18.6	Yeah, I read his book when I was a kid.
1:20.6	Okay, yeah, the Theory of Everything. Right, that makes perfect sense. Yeah, this is a
1:26.2	fascinating book. It's called The End of Everything, Astrophysically speaking,
1:31.5	and it's by Katie Mack,
1:33.2	who is an assistant professor of physics
1:35.4	at North Carolina State University.
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