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"I think you're learning. We're talking about this specific holiday, not the holiday where you take a day off from work. But the holiday related to a gap or a space or a neglected area when you're trying to apply an even coating. And as you note, it's often a space missed when an office space when painting, but more often it's a space missed, not a trip, but not too much pain, but it's a space that you've left a little bit off. But the original use was shipbuilding when they were tarring the bottom of a boat. If they didn't apply tar to the whole bottom of a boat, that was called a holiday. Wow, that's fascinating. It's been used many different industries. A lot of different ways, but always refers to something that isn't consistent with the surrounding area. So either it's a gap or a hole or it's thinner there. So even in the vlogging, cutting timber, it can be an open area in the Woods or a glade where the trees are thin or there aren't any trees. In lots of images, it's just a job that has gone undone, where you've done everything except this one part of the job, and that's a holiday. When during World War II, when there were mines sweeping when they were looking for enemy mines on the floor of the ocean, they called the part of the ocean floor where they didn't sweep for mines. The holiday. Or even domestically, you know, if you're having somebody clean your house and they're dusting, you'll say, don't leave any holidays. Yeah, yeah. I'd love to know where they came from because that's way deeper than I thought. In life, a holiday is something out of a user will. Ordinarily you're working a lot. You're doing your daily business in every day is like every other day. But a holiday is when all bets are off. And the day isn't ordinary. So that's why it's called the holiday. It's unusual. It's exceptional. That's it. It's nothing. It's unexpected, it's just not the way things ordinarily go, and that's why it's called the holiday. How about that? Wow. That's something. So 300 years, this word has been around, and you have just the latest version of it. So cool. Thank you for that. That's way deeper than I thought it was. One of my favorite things. This is why I love during this job. I love the jargon of the trades. And now you can share that with your college. Yeah. Fernando, thank you so much. Thank you. Well, is there a word at work that you keep running into and you keep puzzling over it and you talk with your coworkers about it and they just can't figure it out and neither can you, we can help. 877-929-9673 or send it to us in email the address is words at wayward radio RG. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, 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 Brest Lauer, Josh eccles, Claire rotting Bruce rogo, Rick seidan worm and Betty Willis. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm grant Barrett until next time,
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"rick seidan" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Pot of soup where we like to take samples from time to time. Well, thank you for explaining. All right, take care now and be well. You too. Bye bye. Bye bye. What are the language collisions in your house or your neighborhood or your city? Let us know 877-929-9673 or send your stories about language in email to words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi. This is Madison calling from Wilmington, North Carolina. Hello, Madison. Welcome to the show. Well, I was calling to ask you about something that my grandfather used to say. Which is that he would tell us to take Churchill's advice. And I wanted to see what I could learn about that phrase. Take Churchill's advice. Oh boy, a Churchill had a lot of advice. Some of it good, some of rascally. What was it? So when he would tell us that we knew that he was basically telling us to go try to use the bathroom while you have the chance. Churchill device says, go to the bathroom every chance that you get. So if you're on a road trip and you're stopping for gas and you're like, well, I don't really have to go right now, but you know, I may as well take Churchill's advice. We're here. Or something like that, you know? Yeah, yeah. Why would Churchill say that? I have no idea. Like you said, Churchill was known for saying a lot of wacky things. So I was just wondering, is that something like do other people say that? Is that something that, you know, where would he have gotten that from? Is that something his family made up? Because I've never heard anybody or run into anybody else who knows what that means. First of all, Madison, I would say that's excellent advice, wouldn't you? Yeah, you know, it does come in handy. Right. Carpe p.m.. But it didn't come from Churchill as you might have suspected. Okay, there is a quotation floating around that a lot of people repeat that goes something like never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom, and it often gets attributed to Churchill, but it sort of like one of those memes that go around the Internet like, you know, you see a picture of Abraham Lincoln, which says, don't believe everything you read on the Internet. The source of that quote. Yeah, so that's not advice from Churchill, but there is a bit more to that story, isn't there grant? Yeah, there really is. There was a contemporary of Churchill. One of the biggest scandals of the age in the late 1940s was when the king of England abdicated the throne to marry the American Wallace Simpson, who had been divorced twice. And Edward wrote a book that was first serialized in newspapers across the English speaking world. And in that book, and in those serialized articles in the newspapers, he uses an expression that's very similar to that. He says, perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplies by an old courtier who observed only two rules really count, never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself, never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. And this is from his book called a king's story, 1951, and at that point he was no longer king who was his official title as the duke of Windsor. And there's a British scholar called Nigel Rhys, who for a very long time has been researching quotations. And he has a fantastic newsletter called quote unquote and a great website by the same name. And he believes Nigel Rhys believes that it may go back even further among the royals, the royal families. He thinks it may have been said by the very first duke of Wellington Arthur wellesley as always make water when you can. Because it's attributed to that first duke of Wellington, but I don't have a date on that. But it is possible that instead of Churchill, it comes from other British August figures of note. Who have to make lots of public appearances. I mean, this makes sense to me. Yeah. Yeah, you're always being shuttled around from important event to important event and people always wanted to catch your eye or catch your arm and talk to you and don't forget that you have very human needs that are private that don't involve other people. Well, that makes sense. Madison, thank you so much for calling today. And it doesn't matter that your grandpa didn't get it quite right. It was still really good advice to pass along to you. It is, and you know he had a lot of good advice. Thank you for letting me ask about that. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was. All right, take care. Call us again sometime. Bye. Take care. Bye bye. And you know if there's a famous saying or quotation that you've been repeating for years and now you're wondering, do I have that right? Is that really the person who said it? Do I even have the words right? Let us check that for you. 877-929-9673 email words at wayward radio dot org or find a dozen other ways to reach us at wayward radio dot org slash contact. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, 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. 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"I wanted to get back to the book that we were talking about called Dickens and prince a particular kind of genius by Nick hornby. We talked about how it's sort of a meditation on perfectionism and how that can get in the way of your creativity, but we didn't really talk about his pondering their creativity itself and how in the world those two guys or anybody who super creative ends up being that way. And I wanted to share a line from that book that has stuck with me. He's trying to figure out what it was that made both prints and Charles Dickens so creative and eventually concludes every tiny step of their lives every single parental decision, school lesson, friend, uncle, magazine, day out, crush conversation, shopkeeper, made them that way. That I suspect is the best we'll ever be able to do. I really appreciated that notion that we're all a composite of all of our experiences come together. Oh, of course. Yeah, I believe in the uniqueness of people. But I also believe that in order to step in different streams, you must intentionally seek out those different streams. Expose yourself purposely and purposefully in a different world than the people around you. If you were consuming the same things there consuming the media and the experiences, then how can you produce differently than they produce? You have to consciously seek out a different world than they do in order to be different. Well, we'd love to hear your thoughts about creativity or perfectionism or a word that's been rattling around your brain. Give us a call 877-929-9673. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, 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 work. 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 gratin, Bruce rogo, Rick seidan worm and Betty Willis. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm grant Barrett until next
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