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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 ājeā to a word as a diminutive, to make a concept smaller. āStukā is piece, āstukjeā is small piece. So far so good.
But see the picture. Itās a peanut butter label that says that the jar contains āgrote stukjesā, 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!
@BurntUmberAK @grantbarrett We'll do our best!
@benfulton @grammargirl Yes! See this blog entry from the fellow tasked with sorting and cataloging the collection: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/
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/
@matthew @piquant00 Just to be clear: while "beck" is indeed a shortening of "beckon," the phrase isn't and was never "beckon call." It is and was always "beck and call." Michael Quinion at World Wide Words has a great entry on it https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bec1.htm and we talked about it on the radio show here https://www.waywordradio.org/beck-and-call/
myrmepropagandistWe need a word for the feeling of missing animals from a time before humans even existed.
Nancy FriedmanOn āenshittifyā and āenshittification,ā 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/
@pmb @bookstodon Thank you! We appreciate it! Here are some of our book recommendation segments over the years: https://www.waywordradio.org/category/book-recommendations/
