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"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Someone has been unfaithful as a spouse? Oh. Yeah. That's what I meant. That's where the recessive gene comes in because it skips generations. And so if you don't understand genetics, you might think that your spouse has been cheating on you or sleeping around. You don't have red hair and the redheaded baby is born. But also, Martha, did you know this that sometimes red haired people were seen as unlucky? Oh, sure. Yeah, you might have avoided them like you avoid a black cat? Yeah, there was superstitions, yeah. Martha, you mentioned the late 1800s for this, but there were some other versions of it back then, too, right? Yeah, I'm looking at a newspaper from 1899 that refers to somebody as being as sad as a red headed cross eyed stepchild. You know, it's that child who's a little bit different from the rest of the family. So, yeah, redheads have dealt with a lot over the years. They've dealt with Ginger ism as it's called, you know? Just have stereotypes. We're coming out of that a bit, though. I do feel like my redhead has not been picked on. It's been more embraced. And even the freckles have been embraced as being different and unique. So I'm hoping that's all changing. That's wonderful. I think Harry Potter probably had something to do with that. Weasley's, you know? Part of the reason tribe was seen as a strength. Wow, well, thank you so much. Thank you, Megan. We really appreciate your call. Give our best to your family, all right? Bye bye. 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three email words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, my name's Dwayne Francis I'm in New York and my question is what is the meaning of the word karate? Toronto? Yes. It's a word I learned. From my parents, they're from the USVI. The United States Virgin Islands. And it's a word that my mother and her siblings would use. And it would refer to I'm not talking much concern about the meaning of both the origin that they use it to refer to like clutter. And I can't figure out where this word comes from or how it's properly spelled or the only significance that it has. Clutter. Okay. And how would you spell that if you had to spell it? Oh, well, I guess, and I would say CAR UTP LE. That was just guessing, but I can't find it anywhere. That's about right. It does appear in a couple of dictionaries of Virgin Islands language. There's one by Kareem Nelson hull, the virgin island dictionary. And he has an entry for it, and he calls it a collection of items seemingly junk that is placed where it is causing an obstruction or making an area unsightly. And he spells it COR T oh. And then there's another entry on the website of Christian dictionary dot com by Robyn Stearns. She has an intrigue that's very similar for that. The spelling is LE. Missing that last O. And it's very similar. And I have a theory on where that comes from. And this goes back to a dictionary of Jamaican English published by Fred Cassidy and Arby Lepage. And in this book, they talk about a word from new world Spanish carrot tos, I guess I shouldn't have trilled that are. It's carotid. And that means stuff missed the latest things are junk. And it's used in Puerto Rico and Venezuela and other Spanish speaking countries around the Caribbean. Wow. There's also a word in Jamaican other Caribbean countries that mean junk or miscellaneous things or stuff that are very similar carotid karrueche kuroko and tons of different spellings that are all pretty similar, not exactly like they're all missing that L, for example that are very similar to corrupt. Wow. Well, thank you so much. I would have never made that connection with the Spanish type of things. Yeah, because you know, you know, the virgin honeys, it's got all those layers of English. It's got, of course, it's got the English. It's got a little bit of Spanish. It's got a little bit of French, a little bit of Danish, it's got the African heritage. Dwayne I'm wondering about the sense in which you use it. Is it a really negative sense or is it just kind of mild, you know, I got a little bit of clutter on my desk or is it no was used when if mom walked in in the room was in disarray, you were going to hear that word. Coronal. Oh, yes. Did you have a light accident? She'd be like, I can't. I can't work in all this column. You know, you have to keep all this corrupt up, you know? Who? I always loved the virgin island as accident. It always made me feel warm. There was something home like about it. Another theory is that there's just a bit of catheters here where the consonant sounds in clutter where rearrange to give us karate. So that's what metathesis means where sounds swap in a word. Like bird used to be bred and exactly used to be dripped. Exactly. Metathesis. Oh, okay. But anyway, that's the best I have to offer you. And I appreciate you. Thank you both so much. Our pleasure. Thanks for calling. Thanks for calling. Take care now. All right, you too. Bye bye. YouTube bye bye. Bye bye. Bye. We talk about English from all over the world, and we'd love to hear what's going on in your corner of it. Call us 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or send your questions and stories about language to words that wayward radio dot org. Support for way with words comes from Jack and Caroline Raymond. Proud sponsors of wayward Inc, the nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Grant, as you know, my mom was a public school teacher for 25 years in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. And Laura was a city with a long history of racial segregation. And in 1975, Louisville began court ordered busing to desegregate the schools, and this was a really tense time. So my mom welcomed her new nervous 7th graders from all over the city with an odd bit of homework. She said, go out and find me a black and white and yellow caterpillar. She wanted them to focus on their weird teacher and this unexpected task rather than on themselves in each other. And sure enough one of them found a caterpillar and brought it in. And the kids put it in this big container with a branch of milkweed leaves, which monarch caterpillars like to eat. And over the next few days, the students watched as it attached to one of those leaves and hung down in that J shape that they do. And then form this beautiful blue green case called a chrysalis. And inside that case, the caterpillar's body broke down into a chemical soup. And a few days later, it reformed as a butterfly. And the kids got to watch it emerge and dry its wings and together when it was ready, they set the butterfly free. That first homework assignment became a yearly tradition in room two ten. And the kids learned the words metamorphosis from the Greek for change form. And they also learned the word chrysalis, which comes from the Greek word for gold. Because the case of some butterfly chrysalis or gold and on a monarch chrysalis, it's got these gorgeous gold dots. And the Greek word Chris sauce meaning gold also gives us the word chrysanthemum, which means golden flower. We lost my mom way too early, almost three decades ago. But you know, when I run into her former students, I still hear about those butterflies. And this is why this week I was over the moon grant to find my first ever monarch caterpillar in the wild. I was so excited..
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"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Support for a way with words comes from Jack and Caroline Raymond. Proud sponsors of wayward Inc, the nonprofit that produces and distributes this program you're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Did you ever think about why we spell the word ghost the way we do? Why do we spell it G HOST? Well, it wasn't always that way. And here's what happened. In the mid 15th century, there was an English businessman named William caxton who moved from London to the wealthy city of Bruges in what's modern day Belgium. And there he got in on the ground floor of a new technology, the printing press. Eventually he moved back to England. And in those days type setting was still really new. It was time consuming. It was challenging to learn. And so it made sense that caxton would bring in workers who already knew the business, even if they weren't that familiar with English spelling. So he recruited some fellow printers whose native language was Flemish, which is the variant of Dutch that was spoken there in Bruges. An English spelling in those days was still a little bit unsettled, but generally the English spelling for ghost was gas at that time. And in Flemish, on the other hand, the initial hard G sound before a vowel was rendered as GH, so in Flemish, the word for ghost was spelled GH, EST. So when these Flemish speaking typesetters came across words that resembled similar words in their own language, they'd often add that H after the G and in fact, you can find books from the early days of printing in English that include an initial GH in words like girl and goose and guest and guest and goat. Those spellings didn't last, but there was one expression that appeared over and over in a lot of the early works that caxton printed, and that term was wholly ghost. And the expression holy ghost appeared so often in those early works with that Flemish spelling that the initial GH in that word happened become standard in English. And that's one of the wonderful stories that you'll learn in the new book by linguist Erica Oakland is called highly irregular white tough through and do don't rhyme and other oddities of the English language and grant the book is really a lot of fun to just page through and get answers to those questions. Those pesky questions about why English is so strange. Yes, it really is a great book she's done all new research it looks like. It's well written, easy to read and something that I think you could recommend to middle schoolers, high schoolers, college kids, the family, and I very much enjoyed it. Yeah, it's a very amiable, accessible book, it answers questions like, you know, what's the difference between big and large, really? Why can we say big about certain words in large about other ones or why do we say how come when we want to say, why? There are all these kinds of questions that she answers very thoroughly, and you get a taste of the history of the English language as well. Yeah, so this book highly irregular by Erica Oakland will be linked on our website. We know you're reading something interesting too. Tell us about it 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or share your favorite books in email, words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. This is a model. Where are you calling from varina? I'm calling from Dallas, Texas. What can we do for you? Well, I was wondering, you know, I'm a German living in Texas. And I always stumbled here across the world called doofus. Which for me is a German is very hilarious because do written the way it is, but to announce those it's like a word for to be stupid or daft. But children, or teenage, I would say this in German. And I think it's so funny that here you have this Latin suffix U.S., you know? Which makes it so big and so and I really wonder where this comes from. Oh, yeah, it's good that you made the connection there. So doofus reminds you where the word doof and German, which means adult or a stupid man, right? And that U.S. suffix probably got attached to the word because it's modeled after a word goofus, which has approximately the same meaning, but it's about 50 years older. It's another another English word for stupid person. We have a lot of those in English. Interestingly, we don't quite know how doofus got into English in the first place. We do know that there's a word dauf, which comes into English through Scots English, probably from Germanic roots which meant listless or dull and this may ring some bells for you. And this is related to the award Germanic word meaning death DEA F meaning that you can't hear. I think the modern word in German is Taub. Is that right? Help. Yeah. To help. Doof actually in German actually comes from Taub. In early 20th century in Berlin, doof was borrowed from low German to mean stupid because death had all these other meanings because in some dialects of German, you could say something is you can talk about deaf rocks. If rocks are Taub, it means they have no usable minerals or deaf eggs means unfertilized or deaf seeds. I mean they don't germinate, or soup without flavor could be called death. You know, it's unsavory. And so deaf takes on more meanings than just can't hear. It's all about kind of lacking the essential quality. And that's what doof kind of borrowed from the word Taub. In these dialect sensors. But interesting, you do first doesn't really show up in English until the 1960s, and yet it seems like a word that's been in English forever. I thought that maybe it's come here with other immigrants who had come, especially to Texas, you know, define and all this. But maybe I'm wrong. It's possible. You know, before the two world wars, Germans accounted for one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States and there were a lot of German speakers. And then the two world wars meant that German stopped being spoken as a second language among a lot of people. But it's possible that that is how doofus came into use in the United States that there was there were still enough German speakers in the United States, even after the suppression of German as a second language. Especially in Texas, we have this Texas German which really spoken anymore. We have some German words in English like persona tight people say in dumb cough people probably know, but there's also German, right? Yeah, those cops is a very colloquial way of saying dumb cops, you know, which is done as a dumb head literally. Literally read. But those I don't think you will sign it in dictionaries. So this is really spoken language, you know? And children's children and teenagers language. And it's not really it's not very, I think people now don't say dove so much anymore. So 20 years ago that did not have much more so hipster rich for this. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it definitely came during the 20s when Berlin was this really big party town. It was part due to this part of the sling of Berlin. I doofy as well. Doofy kind of meaning dummy was a big term then too..
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"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Heard from Dan O'Neill in Fairbanks, Alaska, who writes, what common English word is alternately described as reddish, whitish and bluish. Live it. How did you know the idea? I think I read it when I'm reading Dickens or something as a kid and I looked it up and I was like, wait, how can it mean all these things? It's like English. Get your act together. Vivid, ID. There's gotta be an etymology here, Martha. Yeah, well, in Latin, it means a bluish color or black and blue, like a bruise and it came to figuratively mean envious or spiteful or malicious, but then later on for some reason in English, it also took on the meaning of ashen or pallid, and it can also mean reddish. Oh, yeah. So if you're livid with rage, maybe you're reddish, but also sometimes people's all the blood drains from their face when they're in raised as well. So lots of things can happen when you're in rage. Yeah, so strange word. I think you're right. We should make that our motto. English get your act together. Help us get English's act together, call us 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or English doesn't have its act together in email words, wayward radio dot org. Support for way with words comes from Jack and Caroline Raymond. Proud sponsors of wayward Inc, the nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to away with words. The show about language and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Despite his aspirational name, Oxford spires academy is in the impoverished outskirts of the town that is home to the famous university in England. About 20% of the teens who attend this school are white. The vast majority are refugees and economic migrants from all over the world. They speak a mix of 30 languages. And according to teacher Kate clanchy, this creates something magical, a community without a majority culture or religion, and a mix so extreme that no one can disappear into their own cultural grouping. Everyone has to make friends, companions, and enemies across racial and language divides. And grant as a result, her students end up writing some remarkable poetry. And some of its collected in a book called England poems from a school. Kate clanchy believes that one of the things that makes these young writers so good is actually the process of language loss and change. All of these students came to English after the age of 6 and whether through migration or deafness or dyslexia all of them went through a period where they lost their native language when as one of them put it silence itself was my friend. And Kate clanchy writes in her gorgeous introduction to this book. That locked down period may be painful, but it feeds the inner voice. And I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about. Here's a poem by one of her students rakia Khartoum. It's called my mother country. I don't remember her in the summer, lagoon water sizzling, the Kingfisher leaping or even the sweet honey mangoes. They tell me I used to love. I don't remember her comforting garment, her saps of date trees, providing.
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"Here's a little ditty. That helps kids. Think about twists and turns of language. It goes. how come you are so early of late. You used to be behind before. But now you're i at last pretty confusing but if you think it through it makes sense how come you are so early of late. You used to be behind before. But now you're i at last Yeah this is about somebody who finally got a sleep schedule along under control the no longer sleeping through the third alarm. I didn't even think about the larger meaning. I was just trying to parse my way through the individual awards because if you look at it too closely it's It's very confusing. Yeah eight seven. Seven nine two nine nine. Six seven. three support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to away with words the show about language and how we use it. I'm greg jarrett. And i'm martha barnett a few weeks ago. We had a conversation with mary. That you'll probably remember. She's eighty two and she likes to refer to herself as being middle old and we talked about how people feel about other words for reaching that age like like being elderly or being a senior citizen and we wondered whether they were better alternatives to those words. And you know what grant the very next day. I walked into a store here in san diego and there was a cheery young woman behind the counter and she was telling somebody about their wisdom discount. What and yes. She looked at the at the person's driver's license and said oh you're over sixty you get a wisdom discount and so i made a point of asking. Is that really what it's called. Is that your nomenclature. And she said absolutely you know we we love our older customers wisden discount but that reminds me of a of a proverb that i once read which is just because you reached an old age. Doesn't mean you've learned anything along the way but it got me wondering whether the language we use around age we'll do some changing if it's good for business. We got an email from adam kellogg. Who wrote to say that. In portland oregon. The local transit agency now uses the term honored citizen. But it's not only for people sixty five and older. It's is for people who are low income or medicare beneficiaries or or riders with a mental or physical disability Honored citizens in portland. Get a discount. yeah. I like that terminology. I like it as an umbrella term and also shortens their need to use the fully elaborated phrase of older people blah blah blah and people with disabilities and so forth. Yes that's good. Yeah it's a little self conscious. But but i like it and Michael gardner wrote from albuquerque new mexico to share his mother's Term for this and that's season citizen. He says seasoned season citizen which i also like very much. Her reasoning is that when someone reaches a certain age she's eighty four. They've been seasoned with the ingredients of life and are ready to be served. But i also like seasons suggesting what you were saying about. Having experience accumulated life experience. Yeah that's true but seasoning can happen at a young age as well but yeah but in general the older you are the more seasoned you are right. You've been around us on a few times and major mistakes in bulk. Yes yes you have some mileage on you. But i'm just wondering if in general sort of like i've thought for quite a while that as boomers move into old age. We're gonna see more and more things like stylish hearing aids high-tech walking canes and i just. I wonder if that kind of thing is going to happen with languages. Well it could be certainly as the technology gets better for all devices. We get lighter materials and smaller electronics and the naming that goes with those maybe the naming companies will come up with a generics that will later be passed onto these generations. You know like we had for a while. The internet generation may be something will happen in that direction Yeah and as long as it's useful. I would think it would take hold. So we'll see we'll see we're still welcoming your contributions toward naming the older generations. What's a good overall term. It doesn't sound pejorative for folks of a later generation. Let us know eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three email words wavered radio dot. Org or talked to us on twitter at w. w. o. r. d. l. o. You have a way with words. Hi this is paul from arlington. Texas ipod paul. Welcome to the show. Hi paul so my grandmother. She's dear old southern lady and She had a number of things that she would say. She would use this particular phrase Almost as As a no matter what this needs to happen this is going to happen. you know whether we were running late for an appointment or we were trying to set up for an event or or something like that you know if we were running behind the clock where there was something important on the line she would say needs bees the double meat or needs to be the devil will meet and it was kind of like a chicken the pants to the kid like hey look let's get look this go on this is going gonna happen one way or the other So let's make it. Work needs to be the devil meats. And i've never heard anybody else use. It only ever heard her use it and nobody. I've spoken to as an adult as ever heard this raciest needs beads. A devil meets. Is that right. Yes it's an odd combination of words. I know and then when i say that does that just make you fly right. Yeah right get into gear. Stand up straight. yeah for sure. Well you know. I've never heard that version but i wonder if she was using a variation of a much much older phrase which is must needs. Go that the devil drives. That's an old very well established saying That goes back to the fifteenth century. He must needs go. That the devil drives and it means sort of that same idea of necessity is compelling you to do something. They're they're just no two ways about it. Whatever you've got to do is unavoidable and you see this phrase In the early fifteenth century and shakespeare used it in all's well that ends well when clown is asked why he wants to get married. He says my poor body. Madame requires it. I am driven on by the flesh and he must needs go that the devil drives meaning I gotta get married because my body is telling me to and the devil is pushing me to do it. Thin devil is making me do it. Do you think that maybe she used a version of that. Must needs go that the devil drives a i mean i. It sounds like the same way or at least name context and so that very well could be I had no idea that it was that old was. She was born in the early Nineteen twenty born nineteen eighteen and a.
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"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"There is a book by robert von from eighteen. Fifty seven called hours with the mystics where he talks about the holy monasteries of mount athas in greece and he talks about these mystics with their chins on their chest scenting their minds on their hearts searching for an inward divine glory for days on end and he uses the phrase navel contemplating but also uses the phrase gazing at their navels. So it's possible that if people read that that was the origin and after some switcheroo of navel-gazing. But that's the mid eighteen hundreds that you're talking about yeah this idea of Assuming certain position to try to get yourself into mystical trance. I mean i mean it really goes back to hebrew scripture and and The book of kings where elijah puts his head between his knees to pray that's outstanding. Eleanor has an inquisitive mind. Tell us about your life. And the words you've come across and the things that you want to discover and share with us eight seven seven nine two nine nine six three email words at wayward radio dot org more about what we say and why we say it stick around for more of a way with words support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wavered inc. The nonprofit that produces distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language and how we use it. I'm grant barrett and martha barnett in nineteen seventy-one. A new public library opened in troy michigan to celebrate the children's librarian. A woman named margarita. Hart wrote to famous authors and artists and musicians and others asking them to write to the children of troy both to congratulate them on this milestone and to extol the benefits of their new library. One of the responses she received was from e b white the author of charlotte's web and stuart little and i wanted to share that with you. Dear children troy. You're librarian has asked me to write telling you what a library can mean to you..
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"Really want to work on your cool thing but you know i gotta get through patching all these machines and it's going take the rest of today and tomorrow so you know shaving shelvin coleslaw into rubber boots tag. Thanks for sharing that. Thanks guys bye bye. I went to a musk. Ox farm outside of anchorage alaska. And i'm just i know they're not the same animals. Nobody needs to correct me on that but but boy just imagining shaving. One of my little. Gillette what a great expression we'd love to hear about the language in jargon from your workplace so call us eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or share your stories in email two words wayward radio dot. Org this shows about language seems to family history and culture stay tuned for more away with words home support for way with words come from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're to a way with words the show about language and how we use it. I'm grant ferret and martha barnette. There was a time when william shakespeare wasn't william shakespeare. There was a time when he was just another little seven year. Old going off to school. So what exactly was he taught. And how did his schooling shape the writer and thinker. He would become a wonderful. New book called how to think like shakespeare lessons from a renaissance. Education has some answers. It's by scott new stock. He's a professor of english at rhodes college in memphis tennessee. New stock says shakespeare never had what we think of as english classes. Those wouldn't come along for a few hundred more years instead. Shakespeare's grammar school in stratford was conducted. In latin he was schooled in compelling stories from ancient sources. He was taught to take apart study and imitate the language of the greats. Who preceded him. He was educated in the art of disputation of taking one side of an argument making the case and then taking the opposite position and doing the same sorta like to be or not to be and it was that regimented curriculum. That led to the bard's creative achievements newstalk shows. How many of the educational practices of shakespeare's time actually nurtured the mental play and creativity and freedom that later flourished in shakespeare's writing and he goes on to describe. How even if your classes aren't in latin. You can still adapt those approaches to stretch and hone your own mind. He insists that education must not be just accumulating data but learning the craft of thinking a craft that can be taught like any other. He writes learning to think. Means picking up that feel akin to a baker's awareness of the consistency of dough. A doctor's gentle pressure on the patient's body a sailor's hand on the tiller and grant speaking of craft one. Aha moment i had while reading. This book was about the craft of writing..
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"Show boxes Present boxes these really ornate chinese-made boxes you can put presence into to give to people says do how about that a lot of history behind that word of one good most seventies and i wanted most of my life with the official designation of come showers. And just you've really feel film. Don't on the history of the word not realizing actually from the port of what i noticed. How hong kong. And stu thank you so much for sharing those memories. Thank you all so much ever blessed night bye. Bye bye by well. If there's a word that you've been wondering about all these years we'd love to talk with you about it. So give us a call. Eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or spill the whole story in email words at wayward radio dot. Org more about what we say and why we say it stick around for more support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to away with words the show about language and how we use it. I'm grand grandparent and martha barnett pam spooner of denton texas used to work as a university reference librarian and she sent us photos of something. Really amazing that a colleague once found in a book it looks like a plain white professionally printed business card or a calling card and on one side in all capital letters it reads the ex mrs bradford says the ex mrs bradford and at the bottom written in ink is the word over in parentheses. So you turn it over and on the other side of the ex mrs bradford's card. Somebody wrote by hand in this beautiful old fashioned script. Meet me at the paramount theatre sunday afternoon. Oh wow this is a story there. What happened today. did they meet well. That's pam wanted to know. So in order they walk on and have a liaison somewhere right. I mean who would have a calling card like this printed in the first place right. This is a woman with some panache right. This woman fis airplanes. This is somebody who lives her own life to the fullest. She she tried marriage. It didn't work and now she's doing her own thing. And who was the recipient. Yeah was it a man. Was it a woman good question anybody or maybe it was just a an agent. Maybe it's just a business card. Maybe it was. Just somebody who. She's maybe she's in the film and she wanted to your latest pictures. Oh i'm just thinking that maybe some of you wanna wanna fill in the blanks. Here for us write a story about it so to recap on the front it says ex mrs bradford on the bottom. It says an handwritten inc over on the back. it says meet me at the paramount theatre. What sunday afternoon sunday afternoon. What's the.
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Texan friend of mine. Uses the expression happy as boardinghouse pup and apparently a lot of texans use this term. And i thought why would a pup at a boardinghouse behalf. I think i've heard about this. It's because the food is known to be bad. And so you on the sly scrape it off so the dog can eat it under the table. Oh that makes a lot more sense. I was just picturing like a bed and breakfast. You know doc is so happy to see everybody. Everybody's missing their dogs back home so they're giving the dog. Lots of the makes a board comes with the room and they give you the bare minimum food and it's usually terrible. That makes much more sense. I'm so glad. I mentioned that. Happy as gordon house poke. The dog doesn't care to eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language in how we use it on grandpar- and martha barnette i was going through one of our favourite reference works the dictionary of american regional english and i realized that there are an awful lot of regional terms that involve the word cat cats and cats not for example. Do you know what can't beer is i. Hesitate guests can and cats plummets at least bettys dogs not to re consume it. It has nothing to do with. What's cat beer cat. Beer is a term that you hear in the north at least in minnesota and vermont. That means milk. Oh how about that. What about cat hair. That's not the cat hair cat here something else. Would this be cat hair. Take you might say if somebody He certainly got the cat. Hair whiskers on your face from not shaving money. That's money they had citations from oklahoma and ohio. cat hairs. The cat hairs have money. Yeah okay sure In cat ice is another one. I really liked is not is no. Who's that. what's that cat. ice is Really really thin ice. It's either because Well here's one citation from Wisconsin that says cat ice forms in depressions in fields. Edges of pools. Just like glass. Looks like the eye of a cat with bubbles in the ice or a cat would break it stepping on it. Oh i know that kind of ice. Yeah and one more cat face. Oh sure. I know that one. We have terms for that on. We have a citation for that on our website. Okay so these are fruits vegetables especially tomatoes. The where they they kind of grow with some weird splits in the side. Like the the way the cat's mouth shape uh-huh yeah or the way that a tomato looks when you put off the vine that part where it connected to divine looks like the little the triangular shape catfish. Yeah they're actually a couple of other definitions for cat face..
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"And caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show language and how we use it. I'm grandparent and i'm martha barnett. Here's a great quote from ralph waldo emerson by necessity by proclivity and by delight. We all quote and he so right when you find that perfectly phrase statement that expresses an idea so well something just clicks into place and you want to share it with somebody else just the way it is. In fact that quote from emerson is a perfect example by necessity by proclivity and by delight. We all quote. And i'm reminded of this again and again paging through the new must have reference work called the new yale book of quotations edited by fred r shapiro and fred shapiro is associate director for collections and access at the yale law library and in two thousand six. He published the yale book of quotations. Well the new year book of quotations is vastly expanded has twelve thousand quotations in that one thousand more than the previous version fifteen years ago and one thing that makes it notable is the fact that again and again shapiro has found that many famous quotes were actually originated by women but then mis attributed to more famous men for example the term iron curtain is always attributed to winston churchill but it turns out that the person who beat him to that was british activist and politician. Bessie a stanley. And you know the quote now. I know why nobody ever comes here. It's too crowded. Everybody associates that with yogi berra. But actually the first person to say that was suzanne ridgeway. An actress who appeared in several three stooges movies..
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language and how we use it. I'm grant barrett burnett a while back. We had a conversation about. What would you put on your tombstone. You know how do you distill your life into an epitaph am i and how am i going to tell the world about myself right and we had a lot of listeners call and right with what they were proposing for their own epitaphs. We heard from julie phipps. Who said i've decided to put on mine. I enjoyed it. May i be excused. And there's a reason she did that. She says i grew up in texas. And i always had to say it before. I left a meal that my mother had prepared for us. She's from a very small town in mississippi and boy manners where everything so whether it was broccoli. Brussels sprouts whatever i always say. I enjoyed it. May i be excused. So i always thought that would be a great epitaph right. Yeah i like that one. And we also heard from seth in new york who said that he was unfortunately faced with the responsibility of coming up for epitaphs for his parents and he said that his dad whether it was at a bar mitzvah or wedding he would always ask the band play this one song and the one song was you are the sunshine of my life by stevie wonder and says says i used to cringe at it and think it was silly and then his parents ended up passing away twelve days apart so he had to come up with two gravestones and on his father's side. The epitaph is you are the sunshine of my life. And i'm his mother's side it says forever you'll be in my heart. Sweet is nice and one more from sam written burg who lives in new york city. He says that his uncle jack took a trip to somewhere in the south west and brought back a snapshot of one of his favourite sets of tombstones probably in the late nineteen forties..
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Lyme new hampshire rodas to say that he's been pondering the relationship that we humans have with the machines in our environment and this was prompted by an experience he had when he parked on the upper level of a parking garage and he left after hours and so what he was supposed to do was take the little ticket that you get at the beginning from that machine and put it into an envelope along with the payment. Well he left the payment but he forgot to include the parking ticket in there and he got home and he was looking at that ticket and had the number of the ticket and the time and the date of his arrival but it also contained the words upper spitzer and he was thinking. What in the world is there. Actually a machine that gives you a ticket. That's called a spider because it spits out tickets. Yes yes in that industry. Those little tickets are called spider tickets and that device that machine that gives you the ticket that spits it out is called either a spitzer or an entry station or a parking ticket dispenser but spitzer is a term in the industry. I love it because that's what it does. It's tickets right tickets better. that's fantastic. Send us your stories about language. Our email address is words. It wayward radio dot. Org or call us eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three this shows about language seen through family history and cultures stay tuned for more of a way with words support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language and how we use it. I'm grant barrett and martha barnett and there is some exciting news in the world of language. That's the publication of the dictionary of southern appalachian. English edited by michael montgomery and jennifer hind miller. It's the successor to montgomery's two thousand four volume. The dictionary of smokey mountain.
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"caroline raymond" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Yeah of course you do weapon and a new sword and it doesn't yeah exactly. Yeah you swapping scoping gear all the time right. You can only carry a certain amount. What do i put down. What i pick up. And and that proctoring becomes really important. Because something's proc at different rates and so you've heard that just verb that i verb that narrow rock and that's what's really important. What we're really looking at here is wind that noun become the verb because for me. That's really the important part. That's really when. I think that it went from being a nearly used term. That's kind of more about programming and more about software development and and then became more about the games and the gamers players. Okay do you use this at all in your offline life with with other friends when you're talking about something out in the world or is it exclusively it hasn't migrated out of out of your screen hasn't graded out of my screen but i'm pretty utah contracts about that sort of thing so i wouldn't want to give away too much notary. You're giving away a lot of By appearing on this show you know but both of cool nerd. hey this is not a nursery. Your phone call. Brockton an experience with us on the air. Exactly thanks for the call brand really appreciate it. Thanks for nursing out. Yeah thank you so much. Have a great day by. What is the jargon of your pastime. Are you a nigger. Are you a coin collector. Maybe like to collect gems when you go on hikes. Whatever it is let us know. Eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or tell us the jargon of your pastime in email words at wavered radio dot org More about what we say and why we say it stick around for more support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to a way with words. The show about language and how we use it on grandparent's and i'm martha take a moment and imagine trying to tell someone how to get to your home without using the name of your street or for that matter. The names of any streets within a ten mile radius. I've been thinking a lot about that challenge ever since reading a fantastic book by deirdra mask. It's called the address book. What street addresses reveal about identity race wealth and power most households in the world. Don't have street addresses. In fact that's the way it was for much of human history as late as the nineteenth century. The royal postal service in britain managed to deliver the occasional letter with a less than precise address on the envelope. Like you might send a letter to so and so who lives in the cottage by the forest or my favorite was a letter that was addressed to someone in scotland that read to my sister. Jeanne up the cannon gate down a close edinburgh. She has a wooden leg. Just in case you weren't sure which gene it was but grant it makes you realize how much we take for granted the words we use to tell people where we are and also the immense power ineffective as names..