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"Show recently. And they said that so and so thought he was all that and the plate of witch crackers. Yeah, there are other people have played around with it, a plate of fries, a plate of chips, a plate of green beans, a plate of biscuits and gravy. They've done a variety of different things, but usually all that in a bag of chips is the more common. But yeah, it comes from black American English and like a lot of terms left the speech of black Americans and entered the mainstream to the usual channels of popular culture and it's a little dated now just so you know, and it's that used, but it's out there. Of coming back around too, so who knows? Maybe much younger than people start saying it. Thanks to you kind of. Maybe other than maybe we're transcending right now. As we speak. Maybe. Maybe not. We are all that in a jumbo bag of chips. Thank you so much. I was very hopeful. All right, take care. All right, bye bye. Bye. Thanks for calling. Bye bye. Well, if you're slaying as new or as slaying as old, we'd love to talk about it 877-929-9673. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weisler, and quiz guy John Chanel. We'd love to hear from you, no matter where you are in the world, go to wayward radio dot org slash contact. Subscribe to the podcast here hundreds of past episodes and get the newsletter at wayward radio dot org. Whenever you have a language story or question, our toll free line is open in the U.S. and Canada, one 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or send your
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"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Any ideas? So we're talking about somebody that wears their clothes inside out or likes funny hats. What are we talking about? Usually it's like people that don't eat certain foods or like she was talking about a couple that she knows and like, no matter how sick they are, they don't want me to go to the doctor and still say, they're the queerest people I've ever met. Got it. That's wonderful. And have you ever seen the term spelled out? I have not. I have not. But I mean, we're so the nurse, we say everything a little different. Yeah, where is a word that you will hear in the American south and it's usually spelled QU ARE or sometimes QU, and it means, as you suggested, it means it describes somebody who's a little strange, unusual, and what's really cool about this word choir is that it's an Irish pronunciation of the word queer, and by queer, we're not referring specifically to sexual orientation. We're talking about, you know, somebody who's a little peculiar but harmless. I mean, like those people you were describing, you know? The choir is people you've ever seen. And yeah, you hear this through much of the American south and what's really nice about this is that it's a lovely vestige of those Scots Irish settlement patterns in the south. And so yeah, you describe somebody as choir. Meaning stranger unusual. It gave rise to the verb phrase to go queer, meaning to seem strange or seem unusual. And also what's cool in Irish English is that queer can also be an intensifier, like it's hot outside. Really? Yeah, is it queer hot there today? Really, really is square today. So our DNA and we are scotch Irish from Tennessee. Just where my sister Calvin mountain hood. So that. Take care now Theresa. Thanks for coming. Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye bye. Well, we aim to please and delay. There's more to the words that you speak than just their meanings. There are all these little flags attached, and on those flags are words like history, family, and culture. Call us and we'll explain your flags to you 877-929-9673 email words at wayward radio dot org or Twitter at hello, you have a way with words. Hello, this is Larry ought from Lafayette, Indiana. Hi, Larry. Welcome to the show. Hey, Larry. Thank you. My family had a couple of things we used to say. And I just was hoping you might be able to shed a little bit of light on it. If we're Jimmy Cain, my grandma was the first one I heard use it. When there was trouble coming of some sort, she would say there's a, there's a Jimmy Cain of coming. And we were like, what the heck is it Jimmy came? It definitely had to do with storms and weather, but it also covered a whole range of other things that say you got some family problems and you know there's going to be trouble or something and I kind of liken it to when Dr. Phil says no good can come of this. No good can come of this. You sound just like him. It's something bad that's a coming. Is that right? Right, exactly. Well, Larry and when you talk about a Jimmy Cain usually what you're talking about is a really strong wind and by strong I mean a really destructive one and we're not really sure of the origin but it's probably a variant of the word hurricane. It's not quite as bad as a hurricane. Because it's an inland storm and it's strong enough to do some damage. It's a straight wind that can knock things down. It's just one of these winds that does a lot of damage. I'm looking at a newspaper from 1879 that says a perfect Jimmy Cain visited these parts Thursday afternoon, blowing the top knot off haystacks, unrooted sheds, raising outhouses, lumber piles, et cetera, considerable fine real estate changed hands on that day. Well, that definitely sheds some light on this situation. Well, I'm very interested that your family uses it metaphorically because I'm not used to seeing that it's usually specifically talking about weather, but I could see where you would if you're looking at metaphorical clouds looming in the distance or anticipating something bad happened. I can see how you would use the term Jimmy cane there. Well, interesting. All right, take care of Larry. Thanks for calling. Thank you, bye bye. Be well. Bye bye. There's something regional in the language that you speak no matter where you are in the world. And we'd love to talk to you about it. 877-929-9673 is toll free in the United States and Canada. And you can email us words at wayward radio org and you can find lots more ways to contact us on our website at wayward radio dot org. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weisler, and quiz guy John Chanel. 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"Team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weissler, and quiz guy John Chanel. We'd love to hear from you, no matter where you are in the world, go to wayward radio dot org slash contact. Subscribe to the podcast here hundreds of past episodes and get the newsletter at wayward radio dot ORG. Whenever you have a language story or question, our toll free line is open in the U.S. and Canada, one 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or send your thoughts to words at wayward radio org. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc, a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Special thanks to Michael Brest Lauer, Josh eccles, Claire rotting Bruce rogo, Rick sidon worm and Betty Willis. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm
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"Yeah, and she made a shirt for it too. Yeah. Yeah, you have to spell cuppers, see you PPA, but had a tonic cup of cappuccino, ta-da. And there's a wonderful segment where she and one of her music students play pilot, music passages from Bach, which require that you play a passage forward and backward at the same time in order for it to be what the composer intended. And it's quite lovely. Both of them have these burping bed posts as they're called. And it's really quite brilliant. They also have a great shot of her playing the oboe at the spiral J in the great Salt Lake, which is just outstanding. Just wonderful stuff. 877-929-9673. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor Tim Felton, and production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weissler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 877-929-9673, or email us, words at wayward radio dot ORG. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Until next time, goodbye. Bye bye..
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"Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weisler, and quiz guy John. We'd love to hear from you, no matter where you are in the world, go to wayward radio dot org slash contact. Subscribe to the podcast here hundreds of past episodes and get the newsletter at wayward radio dot ORG. Whenever you have a language story or question, our toll free line is open in the U.S. and Canada, one 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three, or send your thoughts to words at wayward radio dot org. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc, a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Special thanks to Michael breslauer, Josh eccles, Claire granting Bruce rogo, Rick sidon worm and Betty Willis..
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"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Don't want to be licking your computer screen though. No. I'm going to lick your Windows 10 installation. And then there's an expression that Martha brought up on the show once, which on one meaning it's Mexican Spanish slang. And one meaning it means to kind of scope out good-looking people in its itar un taco de ojo to throw a taco of the eye, but in another meaning it can mean to look but not by. Of course, window shopping itself in English can also mean to kind of cast admiring glance at all. The good-looking people around you without any intention of really going after them are asking them for dates or anything. But Martha, we have to mention the Canadian one. That's maybe maybe we can just borrow that one. What do you think? Oh, that's a fun one, yeah, I like that one. Twain? Tracking. That's Newfoundland, right? Yeah, yeah, you hear it mostly in Newfoundland. Let's go Twain. It's a window shopping dates back about a hundred years, probably from British dialect term, which really meant to be indecisive or something along those lines. But for some reason, just kind of landed a Newfoundland and stayed there. So why don't we sandy? Why don't we just coin a word right now and we're going to borrow that Newfoundland term and say that if your window shopping on the Internet, you are tracking? Okay, that sounds great. It works. No? Yeah, instead of computer hacks, you have computer tweaks. I like it. Okay, sounds great. Do you have a better idea? Yeah. She sounds suspicious. Yeah, it's just sounds like she's ready to put us on a home, Martha. Well, you know, I will definitely tell her about family. What do you say though, sandy, if you're shopping and you're like, you want to tell something in your family that you were looking for baby clothes and you mean online? How would you just casually throw this sentence out there? I'd probably use browse to be drowsy online. I think I might just say shop. I don't know. I like wacky. I like twerking. I do too. Oh, sandy, thank you for the call. I know we'll get a lot of response. We'll ask everyone to send their suggestions for a new word for shopping on the Internet, all right? Okay, I appreciate you. Thank you so much. You guys have a great day. Bye bye. Thanks, sandy. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor Tim Felton, and production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weissler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 877-929-9673, or email us, words at wayward radios dot ORG. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Until next time, goodbye. Bye bye..
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"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"If you need a different idiom to describe somebody who's really corrupt, a really crooked, you can always say, he was so crooked, he could hide behind a corkscrew. Isn't that a great visual? Yeah. That reminds me of my favorite one. It's calling something a revolving SOB. He's an SOB no matter which way you look at it. That's good. 877-929-9673. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, this is Daniel patullo. I'm calling from Youngstown, Ohio. Hi, Daniel. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. So I've always had this question in my head, and I've never really been able to find an answer. Whenever I was getting my puppets car, when I was younger, without missing the beat, you would always say, we're off like a herd of turtles or a turtle hurdles. And now I don't know if he just came up with this. I've tried to look it up before, but I've never found out. And he was the kind of kooky dude, so. Spooky dude. So heard of turtles. This was your father or your grandfather. My grandfather, the grandfather. Grandfather. Okay, we're off like a herd of turtles. And did he mean anything more than we're leaving? No, it was just every time we got in the car to go somewhere, it was off like a herd of turtles or her to hurdles. You know what, Daniel? I've never heard the turd of hurdles part. I really like that. The other expression, we're off like a herd of turtles. A lot of people say it's one of several sort of fanciful sayings for taking off like that. Like we're off like a dirty shirt at the end of the day or we're often a cloud of whale dust and we're off like a herd of turtles. I mean, it's funny, isn't it for several reasons. I mean, first of all, I don't think herd is the right word for turtles. I don't know that I've ever seen. I heard of turtles. I once tried to find the collective noun for a bunch of turtles. And some people say the word is bail BAL. Bale of turtles. What your dad does with playing with the words is really funny. It's what we call a spoonerism where you switch those letters around like you say the lord is a shoving leopard instead of the lord is a loving shepherd that kind of thing. And it goes back quite a way until the 1930s at least ever since then. People are saying off like a herd of turtles, but Mario thought you talked about off like a dirty shirt, but that implies speed where a herd of turtles is rather slow and disorganized. Really slow and disorganized. I wonder, I wonder if your grandfather was hoping people would hurry up and get in the car. You would think that, but we always had to, you know, we've had plans with him. We'd always have to set the time a half an hour earlier just for him. And so he would show up just on time. He was always tardy. He was more turtle like, huh? Yeah. Well, he sounds like a clever guy. Yeah, kooky dude. Oh yeah, he is. Thank you, Daniel. No, thank you very much. Thanks for calling. Bye bye. Take care. Take off like a dirty shirt and call us 877-929-9673 or email us words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, this is Jeffrey Smith from New Bern, North Carolina. Hi, Jeffrey. Welcome to the program. Hi, Jeffrey. Well, there's an expression I've often heard and I just kind of wondered what is so right about rain. You know, it just seemed like, you know, I suppose if you're in a desert, you like rain, but other than that, rain makes a lot of mud. It ruins a lot of picnics, and I was just wearing where it could have come from or why clear so pleased with rain. Unless I missed it like rain like a king monarch's reign or something. No, your original idea is the right one. It's rain. And so how would you hear it? What kind of situation would you be in? Were you here? Well, my father Texan and he had an anecdote more than Carter had liver pills and everything was had to have a follow-up. Well, is this correct? Yeah, that's right as rain. And it's like, so he's confirming that it's correct. But he always had that twist. So there could be some twist that he was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, southern and I'm Dan Yankee from Connecticut and New Jersey. And I just wondered, was it a colloquialism from Texas or is there some other reason for rain that I don't know about or? No, it's pretty old. Right as rain goes back to at least the late 19th century. And there were actually a lot of expressions like this right as a book or write as nails or right as the bank, but this is the one that survived and I'm thinking that it's probably just because of the alliteration, you know, that the two R's there right as rain. And also there may be the idea that sometimes when rain comes down it comes straight down in a straight line and it's just absolutely right, you know, sort of a right angle to the earth. But we don't really know much more about it than that. It's a pretty straightforward term. Well, just trying to prepare to ask you this question, the thing started running around my mind like two rs. I never thought of it being perpendicular to the earth. I also was thinking maybe it had to do with people talk about when you have to clean rain, everything smells fresh and it's started and it's nice again or something. But I thought I would serve it up to you guys and let you knock it out of the park. Well, I don't know if that was fun. Jeffrey, thank you so much for your call. Call us again sometime, all right? Okay, thanks for taking my call. Bye bye. All right. Bye bye. Jeffrey mentioned having more of something than Carter has pills. Well, Carter was a brand name and Carter cell liver pills, and you can find out more information about that and thousands of other things on our website at wayward radio dot org. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor Tim Felton, and production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weisler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 877-929-9673, or email us, words at wayward radio dot ORG. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Until next time, goodbye. Bye.
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"Welcome. What can we do for you? I'm curious to know about a word that my father always used and then my sister reminded me also my mother used and that's what you call the end piece of the loaf of bread. We always refer to it as the couple. I never really thought much about it. It wasn't until I was older and married and somehow that came up and said, oh, well, you don't need the Cabo and he's like, what? Are you talking about? And he's like, oh, you mean the heel of the bread? I never heard that word, so. Wow, couple. I have to confess, I've never heard that used for the end of a loaf of bread. There are lots and lots and lots of terms. Have you heard that one grant? No, so that's Sue that's cuby LE. I have so that's the way it is. It's nothing that I had spelled. We didn't have that as a spelling word in class or anything. No, that's a new one on me, but lots of people have family words for that. Absolutely. For the end of the loaf, the last piece. The heel is the usual word. Correct. A lot of them have to do with parts of the body, like grant mentioned the heel. Some people call it the bread, but the nose. Oh. Right. Elbow. Yeah, in Spanish, the word is co though, which means elbow. There are a lot of family words as grant mentioned like bunts and tampi and then there was that come from people's different heritages like skulk, which comes from Norwegian for the end of the loaf of bread. So you have terms like buns and skirt and crunch and trona and tummy and canoes. One of my favorites is from Scotland. In Scotland, some people call it the outsider or the outsiders. Oh, well, maybe it's like, you know, everybody has their own name for when they were a kid, what their bottle was or their blankie, you know? None of you. Yeah. Yeah, that may have been what happened in your family. I guess so. Yeah. Yeah, we're just not we're just not coming up with anything that sounds like couple. But you can have it and you can be yours and you can love it. Thank you. And I deleted. Thank you for calling. You welcome, thank you. All right. Bye bye. Bye. Bye. What do you call the end of a loaf of bread? That one piece is it the butt, the heels, something else. Let us know. 877-929-9673 or words at wayward radio dot org. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor, Tim Felton, and production assistant, Rachel Elizabeth weissler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 877-929-9673 or email us, words at wayward radio dot org. A way with words is an independent production of wayward ink a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett, until next time, goodbye. Bye.
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"Would use it is to compare to things, so for example, if you asked me to cook a Thanksgiving dinner and I'm a terrible cook, then I would say, oh, I can't even cook for myself. Let alone cook Thanksgiving for ten people. So I would compare what you're asking with something that's even less than that. And say, I can't even do this. So forget about this other thing. And I would put the more extreme thing at the end. So that's how I always heard it used. And that's what makes sense to me. But I feel like lately in the last probably two or three years, I've been hearing a lot of people using it the other way around. Where they'll put this thing in question at the beginning and then the lesser thing at the end. So they'll say, oh, I can't cook Thanksgiving let alone cook for myself. To me, this just sounds so wrong. This is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I could just feel totally backwards. I'm hoping that you can just settle this for me officially. Yes, we can provide you some relief. Doctor Martha, we can help her, right? Yeah, so we have some great magazines while you're waiting. Yeah, I think you're really nailed it exactly right, traditionally, the harder things should come last. In your version, you said that I can't do X, which is an easy thing. And let alone Y, which is a harder thing. And that's pretty much how it has been and ought to be. And you're right. People do often put the difficult thing first. They say I can't even Z let alone X but what they should be saying is not even X so kind of what they're mixing here is these little idiomatic expressions all which are used to provide this range of possibilities of what they are are not capable of doing. And let alone, let's admit it is kind of a weird expression, right? Alone is not. It's idiomatic. It's hard to break down. What is alone mean? It's not really a modern phrase at all, right? So it's kind of opaque when you hear it being used. It's pretty easy to misunderstand it. Yeah. Right. True. That's true. But they're different phrases like that. It's the same kind of construction to say nothing of never mind or much less. Yeah. Yeah. And all of these can be used in the same way or they can be misused in the same way. So it's kind of an understand when it was like particularly with let alone, especially with let alone. Because let alone is just this odd little bird. If you saw this and you had your camera, you would take a picture of it because it would be the strange all the little Brown birds and this brightly colored one, you know? Look at this little bit alone over here. Yeah, look at this little let alone and you'd be showing to all your bird or friends. So I think you really nailed it. And I think it's a forgivable mistake, but it is an error. You're not the only person who's noticed this. Linguists have been researching complementary alternation discourse constructions. That's what they're called. Yeah. And we'll link to some very highfalutin academic papers when we post this to the website. They're pretty heady stuff. Yeah. But when I said there were magazines in our waiting room, these are not those. No pictures. These are the things we give you when you haven't been following the diet. We give you. Taking the pills like we recommend. I would expect no less. But we'll link to anyway because you might find some benefit. So just to be clear, since we said so much, let's make sure we talk about this one last time. It should be, I can't even toast bread, let alone cook Thanksgiving for ten people. So it's the easy thing first and the hard thing second. Yeah. Right. Perfect. Well, Stacey, thank you so much for calling. I'm glad you feel better. Thank you. Thank you for the matter soon. Come and see us in 6 weeks. We'll take the cast off. Thank you. Happy holidays to you guys. Bye bye. Bye bye. Well, if there's a word a phrase you're wondering about, give us a call. 877-929-9673 or send it to us in email, the addresses words that wayward radio dot ORG. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, grant Martha. This is Jonah calling from Baltimore, Maryland. Hi, Jonah. Hey, Jonah. I'm a private music teacher. And as one of my ten year olds was packing up after our lesson, we somehow got to chatting about states we visited. So I asked him if he knew his state capitals. And he's a really confident kid. So he emphatically said, of course I do. So I said, okay, so do you know that capital of Maryland? And without missing a beat, he shouted MD, which I lasted. I laughed at, I said, no, I mean, the capital city. And then he just looked at me confused and went, oh no, I don't know those. That's so cute. So he used the initials and capital letters. Yeah, he used the capital letters. And you know, I guess it's an honest mistake. And when it comes to different uses of the capital, the word capital ending AL, I guess he was justified in answering the question that way. He just chose a different sense of the homonym. But then I got to wondering about the two different spellings of capital ending AL and OL. Which there are obviously two related words, but with divergence spellings. And specifically, I was wondering if you could clarify how we ended up with those two words and why when we heard a capital city, it's not spelled with an O's, since that's where the capital building is situated. Right, exactly. Yeah, you've zeroed in on the big difference that confuses a lot of people because as you suggested you only use the O for the capitol building, whether it's the U.S. capitol building, where Congress meets in Washington or in your case, the state House in Annapolis. That's the capitol, where the legislators meet. But it's in the capital city AL. And a lot of people have trouble remembering which is which, but the trick I use is either to picture the round dome of the capitol, which sort of looks like an O, or you can think about the letter O standing for only one that one instance of when you use the OL in the case of the building and all the other uses of capital are AL. And you're right that there may be a connection between the two, the AL capital, which we use for a lot more ideas like the main thing or a capital letter, it goes back to the Latin kaput, which means pertaining to the head. And so you get all kinds of meanings coming out of that kind of capital, like great or capital in money, as a matter of fact, like venture capital. That's originally from Latin parr's capitalis, the first part of a loan that's not the interest. And then the meaning expanded. The OL version capital goes back to Ancient Rome, where the great temple of Jupiter, which was this magnificent temple in Rome was located on the capitoline hill and there's a story in antiquity that is probably apocryphal about them starting to dig the foundation for this temple and they found a head when they were digging, and it was belonging. To somebody named Talia's or something like that. But that's probably just an etymological myth. But basically, they go back to the capitoline hill, which was with an O and then caput meaning head for all those other terms. Okay. So Jonah, I'm going to repeat that story from your student. I think that's hilarious. That was a great one. Yeah. Thank you for the call. A good luck with the students. Yeah, thanks for taking my call. All right, take care. Thanks, Jonah. All right. Bye bye. 877-929-9673. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor, Tim Felton, and production assistant, Rachel Elizabeth weissler. 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A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Another hiking term I came across in the book journeys north by Barney scout man is hiker midnight, any guess what hiker midnight is? Hi care, midnight. Wow. I don't know. I'm kind of thinking about halfway between when you put up your tent and when you get up, which isn't necessarily the middle of the night since you often set up your tent well before dusk and you often get up well before dawn. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Barney says it's 9 p.m.. You've hiked 20 miles or 30 miles and midnight comes at 9 p.m.. You are just out. Oh yeah, none of this romantic sitting around the fire to the early hours because you're just finished. You're beat. Yeah, hiker midnight. 8 7 7 9 9 9 6 7 three. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor, Tim Felton, and production assistant, Rachel, Elizabeth weissler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 877-929-9673 or email us, words at wayward radio dot org. A way with words is an independent production of wayward ink a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Until next time, goodbye. Bye.
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Sure. We've no idea. Absolutely, Marianne. And we've heard from other listeners about this too. We've had questions from Andy and Lebanon Indiana, Sally and sturgeon bay Wisconsin. Ray and Macron, Wisconsin, and Jim and Mary will Tennessee as well and probably others that I'm forgetting. This kind of buck three 80 falls in what we might call indefinite hyperbolic numerals. These are terms used for approximate small dollar amounts. And there are a lot of variations on this one. Three 80, buck one 80, but two 80, but three 80, about three 90, about two 98, buck two 95. And these are all exactly what you said. You had it exactly right. They're all about kind of evading the real number. Sometimes because you're embarrassed that it was too high. Sometimes because you're embarrassed was so low. Sometimes just to dismiss the thing as being important, which sounds like what your father sometimes did as well. It's not your business to know. It's my business. Yeah, I was trying to do the math there and think, well, how many pennies would that be? But make sense of it. And, you know, it just didn't make any sense to us. We're just like a buck three 80. Okay, dad. Sure. Thanks for playing. It's not necessarily just that particular amount, whatever that amount is. I mean, there's also nickel 95, for example. 77. Yeah, these are all made up numbers. These none of these numbers are real. They're all completely invented. Whoever says it, they don't mean it. Yeah, he was having fun with that. Oh, he did. And he had a bunch of us have fun with, so that's really fun to hear that there's a lot of different ways to do it, but yeah, we always knew just stop asking. You're not getting anywhere. Well, I'd imagine a man with 8 kids gets tired of questions. So he probably had a lot of vision techniques. Yes, he did. He did indeed. Well, thank you so much. That's really fun to hear. And it just will be a delight for my family to hear about it too. So thank you. It's a delight to have you share your memories. We really appreciate it. Thank you all, bye bye. Bye bye. Memories and language go hand in hand. Call us with your language questions. Tell us about your memories, 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three words at wayward radio dot org or on Twitter at WAW RD. Thanks to senior producer Stephanie Levine, editor, Tim Felton, and production assistant, Rachel Elizabeth weissler. You can send us messages, subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot org. Our toll free line is always open in the U.S. and Canada, 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or email us, words at wayward radio dot O RG. A way with words is an independent production of wayward ink a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Many thanks to wayward board member and our friend Bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Until next time, goodbye. Bye bye..
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"So this robin this is just music to my ears to hear your version. And you know both fifty seven and as you say fifty seven and forty seven have been around for close to one hundred years. They have a long history and often when you hear levin now it's in our nbc or hip hop there's that usher song burn. That goes been you know. you know. it's got that line in there you've been gone for too long. It's been fifty days on teen hours. There's a fancy term for these kinds of words you want to know what it is. What is it indefinite hyperbolic numerals. Okay that makes sense that actually make sense because as you suggested It's a large number not exactly in a particular amount You know it's a really big number. So the the fancy term for these words is indefinite hyperbolic numerals. What's really interesting. Is that forty levin. I think was the earlier one in fifty levin is a variant of that but forty eleven was originally in the northeast and it seems to have migrated down some into the south. Because that's that's where. I hear it more often in so I'm very interested to hear that That you heard fifty levin up in chicago. There's some fascinating work. That's been done on these kinds of numbers by a linguistic anthropologist named stephen and malice who's at wayne state university in detroit and he's done a lot of work on words like fifty seven forty seven and other indefinite hyperbolic numerals like teen and empty. The most common. One of all of these is zillion. And he's done some fascinating research. That shows that zillion was almost exclusively used. The african american community before world war. Two there was about three quarters of the instances. Of the words zillion in print are in african american newspapers magazines and it was used by a lot of this central figures of the harlem renaissance. And it was only later that this term zillion migrated into more general usage. How cool is that. It's not as awesome. So i'm just fifty levin kinds of happy that you called with this question i gotta say rather than you sound like. You've made martha's day. Thank you take it again sometime all right absolutely absolutely you take care of yourself right be well bye bye. Thanks robin five. I if there's another language that you speak where. They use a specific number to mean an indeterminate amount. Let us know. Eight seven seven nine hundred nine nine. Six seven three are tell us about an email words at wavered radio dot org or on twitter at w. a. y. w. o. r. d. thanks to senior producer. Stephanie levin editor. Tim felton and production assistant. Rachel elizabeth wessler. You can send us messages. Subscribe to the podcast and newsletter and catch up on hundreds of past episodes at wayward radio dot. Org our toll. Free line is always open in the us and canada. Eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or email us words at wayward radio dot. Org a way with words is an independent production of labored inc a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language many thanks to wayward board member and our friend bruce rogo for his help and expertise. Thanks for listening. I'm grant ferret. And i'm martha barnett until next time goodbye by..
My Family Thinks I'm Crazy
"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on My Family Thinks I'm Crazy
"To you know the royal bloodlines and phrases pork chop or she. Sixteen hundred francis bacon yet. He he is john. Bacon is mile perch better now. I i don't know off my head. What year francis bacon live you know was born in our chop become pork chop on this show ago. Everybody's saying my my comedies of Following a little flat tonight but it is because guys. I got some sort of mean text message from somebody some group mesic good Listen i'm just going to tell you this sir. Francis pork chop was probably the author of shakespeare. Thank you yeah. I just you know. I don't know maybe people don't get my sense of humor. That's why you're having hard time here. Alex i don't know. I think we generally have fun when when we talk on the phone but maybe no we do. I love it. I love it so much. It's funny. I'm in some group message. I guess it's a spam or something it's like everybody's taking stock. Does that ever happen. Somebody you're getting some group text messaging and spam like i don't know if somebody's purposely spamming me. It's always. I feel like i'm getting on instagram. Sometimes but though in all i. I definitely avoid youtube for that reason. Much-loved everybody watching on youtube. But if you got a comment you know it's like how care is man. I just don't care. And i know you love your audience and i appreciate that but like the podcasting thing. It's like the right people reach out and say rachel two cats. I know that they're going to say the nice thing. I don't worry about rachel donation. Thank you so much rachel. Elizabeth had to cats. Which is you name. Wow another donation. Sky bear while more. Please donate your glasses to my dad. I wanna see on him through blue space. Beam glasses. okay actually. These classes came from the first head shop in the united states in new haven. Connecticut looked at that. Now is the first place you could buy a bomb. Hey some as you said ashleigh. Jane and chat porch offered inner. I called it as she. Jason francis pork chop i wrote shakespeare. And i knew what you had for dinner. So i know this shit. I'm clairvoyant. Keep going well. That's had to say about that. Banou havens weird men the first song shop in hand. The whole hippie movement was social engineering right. So like where do you think they. Social engineer people at the ivy league colleges like yale university in new haven connecticut and all the other little prep schools that are in connecticut. Yeah i did. I'm realizing government school and even in those private schools are like even the worst like they're all funded by all these like evil organizations. Whatever you wanna call it if you go russians yet. But i'm just saying like if you go to public school. There's a reason why it's free. It's because you're you're selling them like your solo. You're selling them your brain like they're able to program you and put in they're operating software and that's why it's free because it doesn't the what the learning system that we use you don't teach anything that's very applicable to later on in life you'll learn a bunch of unnecessary bullcrap and they just want to teach you how to be an obedient debt slave and so it's just it's really scary now looking back now that i graduated college and now that i did that whole system i'm like man that couldn't be any worse bill system now you look at all the politics now like all the school mass stuff and like all these crazy teachers are like anti for even right wing. I don't even want some crazy right-wing teacher just saying like you can't even get a normal teacher. You're going to get some freaking weird teacher trying to do some weird agenda like the we're the world is so weird right now. Bring a kid up in. It is not nineteen dollars. For the first way franchise. Thank you donated roosevelt hilarious. Show straight man. Mark sees okay see. Roosevelt thinks it's thank you roosevelt's that a one so you know. That's that's basically what i think about that. Mark sir francis portu- but on dock but the indoctrination at these schools. Did you can't You can't unlearn what they teach you. They they put it in your brain and it is stuck in your head. It's a lot like the shape of the earth and like the planets and all that stuff. It's easy that at a young age so you don't really like question. You just kind of agree with it. But that's another thing for another day. We can talk about how the systems learning. I'm talking about the machine learning with modern day. Schooling is insane. It's like Basically it's like repetitive artificial intelligence that can predict with a person using it. The child is going to do before they do it like they can predict what they're gonna answer by looking at there is i mean it's just this really. It's what they call like learning tech. I i have a woman that linda report on. She's like an expert in this. And there's like all these companies that invest in cepa basically. That's the future of this. Indoctrination is learning technologies. Were kids have like ipads and do all you know. Projects and stuff. It'd be like that they're like. Oh it's a game of fire so it seems easier but really it's just like this trail hypnotism. You scolded me for talking about books. Like what do you think is going to avoid that kind of indoctrination. Fuck magdalena books naggus magazine. I mean i. I don't know it's The the example. But i noticed that these small bookstores getting lockdown fucking. Tell you were mask inside of a bookstore. I'm like fuck this man. Like i'm so glad that i have as many as i do so i just want to encourage people to get as many as they can before the internet gets locked down. Because i know there's plenty of websites. Says i used to go to for conspiracy information that are gone long gone now on the internet. So it's only a matter of time. And i think you know video content podcast contact. That's as good as it gets because it's independent. You can make yourself you. Don't get a whole production studio book searle different. You know. there's a lot of really interesting. Publishers out there who willing to take a chance on information i think if you put yourself in the right place you might find a book that could change your life you know and i think that's the whole reason in this and you know you're talking about the machine learning ammon i mean i have rakers wiles book. I know all about that bullshit. He wants for everybody to twenty forty five agenda. Also have you know book about the cosmic conspiracy in how the aliens are gonna come and save us so i think there's a whole of stuff they can happen but honestly i think for parents out there. I can't speak for your kids. You're going to have to make the decision. But i think for yourself you know. I don't want to become a robot. I wouldn't want my kids to become a robot. It all and this graphing that they're trying.
NEWS 88.7
"rachel elizabeth" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Housing issue What we really have to Fake, You know, Long term. How can we Provide the kind of living facilities of services and necessary for our citizens of serious eyes. The size of Arlington is about 400,000 people in the first round of the mayoral election about 31,000 voted a very small share of eligible voters. Early voting continues until June. 1st and run off date is the fifth I'm Bret Jaspers in Arlington. Wells Dunbar watches the conversation online. He's our social media editor. Wells. Good to talk with you. Good to talk with you to Laura. You know, we've been hearing about the runoff election in Arlington, Of course, that city not the only one in Texas that to see runoff voting after municipal elections earlier this month, So we're reaching out to our friends and listeners on Facebook to see what's on the ballot in their neck of the woods. Some interesting responses here in Euless, Texas, Lorie Van Gundy Bland says she's trying to fight off the tea party threat in our school board election. She says that the big lie Seems to be trickling down, and it's dangerous. I think, referring there to the unproven allegations of election fraud, and Laura that seems to be a common theme. We're seeing among these comments. These ostensibly nonpartisan local races that appear to be anything but in Dallas, Nicole says. We have a nonpartisan city council run off that's going to be very partisan under the surface. And be a tree is E Vera says that she describes a similar dynamic, she says the most important run off in El Paso is a position for the opacity independent school District District five, I guess, apparently a sign of the increasing polarization we're seeing out there. Laura Rachel Elizabeth has a good reminder, she says. I'm a volunteer with the nonpartisan voter guide. Those in Tarrant County can read up on runoff candidates at Tarrant votes dot com. And while that may be just applicable to that area in North Texas, she does note that local government Has a huge impact on Texans daily lives, so get out there and use your vote. Good advice, I would say good advice. Well, that's just one story. We're watching, Laura. You know, I'll be back with more stories from social media. More reactions from across Texas.