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A Way with Words
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An upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more. #Language #Linguistics #PublicRadio #Podcast #Podcasting #Etymology #Sociolinguistics #Dialects #Languages #Radio
Frederik BorgesiusDutch is so weird. We add ‘je’ to a word as a diminutive, to make a concept smaller. ‘Stuk’ is piece, ‘stukje’ is small piece. So far so good.
But see the picture. It’s a peanut butter label that says that the jar contains ‘grote stukjes’, so: large small pieces.
Must be close to impossible to learn as a second language.
New episode! https://waywordradio.org/hot-gossip/ Gossip's many names, John Donne's love poems, Murphy's Law's name origins, organizing books, rizz, potch in tuchis, conkerbell, saying help like hope, sweet tea vs. unsweet tea, work brickle, collywobbles, a patience-testing puzzle, and more!
The fascinating story of the largest private dictionary collection in North America, in two parts. 1) Its collector, Madeleine Kripke: https://archive.is/20230207122217/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-mistress-of-slang 2) Unpacking its treasures: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/
myrmepropagandistWe need a word for the feeling of missing animals from a time before humans even existed.
Nancy FriedmanOn “enshittify” and “enshittification,” coined recently by @[email protected] to fill a lexical gap. My new post for the Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
The latest episode is in your ballpark! https://waywordradio.org/in-the-ballpark/ Jinx, banging out someone on their last day of work, zoris, agua de calcetín, groundhogs making coffee, marplot, a nerdy game show-inspired puzzle, duck duck gray duck, knowing from Adam's off ox, and lots more.
The latest new episode isn't the pits! https://waywordradio.org/old-college-try/ Human-like computer-generated text, inside baseball, have beef, cut someone's water off, Carolina as Cackalacky, parasol, kiss-me-quick, dippity-do, a common bonds word game, and lots more.
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