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"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Be nice. 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
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"That mister pierce had been incarcerated in a Florida prison for a while. And Sandra writes, my husband later wrote this poem about some time when he worked driving a cement truck in Southwest Florida, creative writing degrees were not much in demand at the time. He passed out one day from the heat. His coworkers who would have all been local floridians called it hugged by a bear. Oh, interesting. And so her husband Burt wrote this poem called bear hug and I'd like to share it with you. Sure. Rolling mesh wire off the back of a flatbed in August, Southwest Florida Gulf Coast piles of crushed rock waiting for the mixer. I'm halfway through the load and there's no sweat on my forehead. I'm cold in 100 plus heat. Waking to a wet smelly bandana on my head. Somebody is holding both my wrists under the water tap. What the hell happened, I ask. And the guy says, you just got hugged by the bear. My eyes feel like they are bleeding. My ears are buzzing. The ferocious sun stabs again and again. Tell me what happened. I told you, you got a bear hug. Oh, nice. How cool is that? That's cool. So now I have to go spend several hours figuring out if bear hug is a established germ for sunstroke. It happens to be, right? At least in that community of people. Yes, I didn't research it, but I thought the poem was so lovely. I've been going back. And the poet's name, what's his name? His name is Bert furby. That is wonderful. You know, we talk about language like that on the show all the time. The regional terms dialect slang and poetry, of course, 877-929-9673, or email words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hello, this is Jane. I am calling from the central Texas hill country outside Austin. Oh, nice. Welcome to the show. How can we help? Thank you. Well, I have a quandary that, as a southerner, I think I know the answer to, but I was real curious how the rest of the world would view the phrase how the Cali the cabbage. How the cow ate the cabbage. Yeah, what do you mean by that? So if I was giving you a little bit of a talking to and setting you straight, I would tell you how to carry the cabbage. And growing up, my mother used to say, I'm going to tell you how the cow laid the cabbage and you're not going to like what my answer is. You're giving him the hard straight facts, right? Well, you know, it's kind of setting you straight. You know, and kind of putting you in place a little bit and it's a southern ism and everybody uses it without thought. It's just every day, but I thought, you know, the show coming from the West Coast and all these people calling in. I wonder what everybody else thinks about how the character cabbage. Well, there's a little bit to say about it. Are you interested in a little backstory on possibly where it came from? You bet. You bet. All right, just know that the term has been around since at least the 1880s. And it almost always appears in the rustic dialog or the speech of farmers or often it's kind of offset. And almost always means to tell somebody something they don't want to hear, tell them something kind of unexpected. But there's a joke about this. So there's a lady whose vision isn't very good. And she's got this problem. There's a circus in town, and one of the elephants escapes, and it gets in her garden. And it begins uprooting her cabbages with its trunk and eating them, so she calls the police and she said, she says, sheriff, there's a cow in my garden pulling up my cabbages with its tail. Remember her vision's not very good. And he says, well, what's the cow doing with him? She says, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. And that's how the calories together. That's how the cow ate the cabbage. This anecdote I've found versions of this anecdote going back almost as far as the term itself. And it wouldn't be surprised, I wouldn't be surprised if varieties of this story have been being passed around well before the term first appears in print. So you don't think it's unique to a southern vernacular or culture. It is actually, I think it's particularly from Texas and Oklahoma, at least most of the uses that I've seen tend to be from the American south and tend to be from Texas and Oklahoma. Yeah, the one that I remember was Ann Richards, governor Ann Richards back at the Democratic National Convention years ago, said, we're going to tell them how the cow at the cabbage or something like that, right? Well, she's a favorite of many. I grew up in Oklahoma and I'm now a voluntary Texan. So I guess that's why I hear it every day. Not a compulsory testing, right? You volunteered. We love our team. Well, thank you very much. We do have a flare. I'll say y'all love to talk about the way you talk. We love getting down there. Jane, thank you so much for call. We really appreciate it. I appreciate y'all. I love the show, thank you. Thank you. Take care now. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye. So do cows eat cabbage? I think they would if they give it a chance. I think an elephant would give it a chance. Is there any notion of it having to do with explaining something in great detail? Telling how the cowie, the character. I think I've seen one or two uses of that, but in general, it's the thing that you don't want to hear. So I guess somebody going in the great detail could be a thing that you don't want to make it even worse. As the hard talk that Jane was talking about, the lecture from a parent or the advice that you don't want somebody set you straight to the facts. Those are all varieties of how the cow eat the cabbage. Great image. 8 7 7 9 9 9 6 7 three. A trip to cross a lovely term the other day, sugar weather. Oh, exciting. Is this from Vermont? Could be from Vermont, but particularly Canada. Oh, the time that they tap the maples for the liquid to become syrup? Yeah, it's spring weather characterized by cold nights in warm days, but right, it has to do with when the SAP starts running in the tree. No sugar with it, but it's nice anyway, yeah. Yeah, there should be poems about sugar weather or songs. Talk to us on Twitter. Hello, you have a way with words. Hey, how are y'all doing? This is Jim calling from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Hey Jim. And I got a question for you concerning the phrase, I don't care. And I guess the best way to ask the question would be to give an example. Say y'all were coming over to my house and I had a cake and I asked you if you were one of the piece of cake, you'd say I don't care. So then I go get you a piece of cake. Or if I went to your house and you had severe you'd say, hey Jim, do you want a beer? And I'd say I don't care. You'd say, hey, what kind do you want? It's kind of it's affirming. It's a yes answer. Around here, a lot of folks. I don't know that I hear it as much as I used to, and they will answer with I don't care as opposed to yes. And I know that it's not I'm figuring it must be somewhat of a regional thing because I'll talk to some folks who are from someplace else and I'll ask them, do you want to they'll ask me if I want a beer and I'll say I don't care, then they'll say, do you want to be here? And I'll say, I don't care. And then it turns into an real quick, you know? And do you have a lot of those things you just use? You don't know that you use it. You know, until somebody points out that you use it. For rambling question, is that a regional thing and what's the source of that? Yeah, that's a regional thing. You do find it in Kentucky and a little bits of Tennessee and Indiana and Arkansas and Missouri and perhaps a few other places. It's not all that common and partly it is because of that misunderstanding that's so obvious there. I don't care, meaning I don't mind if I do, right? Yeah, and that's kind of what I was wondering. It's kind of like a short version of, I don't care if you do, you know. That's right. That's what it is. So the verb care here basically means to mind or to object to yeah, and so it's just a different sense of and it's really related to other uses of care that we use every day when you might say somebody says, do you want to be, and you're like, I don't care if I do. Everyone would probably take as a positive. But if you just said the first part, I don't care, then most people outside of that region of the country would take it as a negative. It's very interesting. Got you. Now, where does that come from? I mean, is that, you know, like I said, I did hear a little small pocket. I don't know. But the reason that you might have that natural outgrowth from the other care is just because of people who associate with each other a lot. This is how dialects come about. So you do have, if you look at the history of care, meaning to object or to mind or to be bothered by, it's a real natural progression and you just get that you get that natural local understanding that kind of is opaque to the outside. There's a really standard kind of dialect behavior for when you get this regionalism that is just mystifies outsiders. Another thing to point out about this is that the care is often pronounced key. I don't care like that. And that's a real lovely local way of saying it's the same. You're not scared either. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, some of those old timers would say that ain't scared. Almost ending with the G, right? Right. Right, right. Right. And thanks for bringing it up to Jim, because I'm quite sure we're going to get some emails from people going, yeah, yeah. That's what we say in my family. I've always wanted awesome. Appreciate it. Take care. I love you all show. I don't want to sound like that taller, but I do. I'll show. And y'all have a good week. Yeah, you too. We really appreciate it. All right. So much. Yes, sir. All right, bye. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye bye. Call us. 877-929-9673. Or send your stories about language to words at wayward radio dot ORG. On our Facebook group, Brett Palmer asks, what do you call a society run by rabbits? Bureaucracy? I don't know. But now, I like that. Somebody on the group said a bunny gar key. Somebody said a cartography. Somebody said a hair hereditary monarchy. But I think my favorite was what's a docrat? Talk to us on Twitter at WWE Y, W ORD. Want more away with words? Listen to years of past episodes at wayward radio dot org or find the show in any podcast app or on iTunes. Our toll free line is always open, so leave us a message at 877-929-9673 and we'll take a listen. 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A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"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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"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Radio 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 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 rotting Bruce rogo, Rick sidon worm and Betty Willis. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm grant Barrett until
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"stephanie levine" 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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A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"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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"stephanie levine" Discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
"Hey, Samantha. So my grandmother, she used to say a phrase that a lot of my peers have never heard of before. And whenever we were walking down the sidewalk together, holding hands, we come to some obstacle. We have to let go of each other's hands and she'd say bread and butter. And then we link back up again. And I didn't realize until I went on a school trip later with my friends walking on the sidewalk kind of the same deal. And they also what are you saying? Why are you saying that? It's just always made me wonder where that came from. I've never heard anyone else say it. So I was just wondering, what's this? What's the root of that phrase? So you're holding hands with your grandmother and so something comes between you like a mailbox or fire hydrant or a light pole. Yeah. Well, Samantha, you can tell your kids that you're carrying on a very, very old tradition. This goes back centuries. It's the idea that the two people who are going around that object should be inseparable. They should stay inseparable. You know, as inseparable as butter and bread, if you butter a piece of toast, you can't un butter it, right? That makes sense. It goes back to a very old superstition that evil spirits or even the devil could take various forms and come between people physically, you know, whether the devil takes the form of an animal or a pebble or a small child running between them, and if you don't do something to counteract that mishap, then the two of you may quarrel later, or have bad luck, and so there's there are a whole lot of phrases that you can use. Bread and butter, some people instead of saying bread and butter, they say needles and pins or one person says needles and the other person says pins and then they hook pinkies and make a silent wish. Milk and cheese are a longer one bread and butter come to supper. And also particularly among black speakers of American English, there's a long tradition of warning against splitting the pole you'll be told don't split the pole, which is that same idea that you don't want to separate the two people who are walking together. And if you want to show your Friends who've never heard this expression, a great example of this, there's a great episode of The Twilight Zone back in 1960 where a very young and very handsome William Shatner, he and his wife were walking along in their separated by lamp post, and he says, bread and butter. Oh, okay. So the bread and butter is saying is at least a hundred years old, but the superstition Martha, and I remembering that this is what we're talking back to the classical era as far as we know, right? Right, all the way back at least to St. Augustine in the fourth century ADs. Yeah, he has a passage about that, doesn't he grant? Yeah, I was talking about exactly like you said. Stones or dogs coming between friends walking arm in arm and how it's bad luck and sometimes how the dogs would go after the boys in order to get justice. Oh my goodness. I'm a Latin teacher. I will have to look up that section. Christina, I think the fourth chapter, if you want to find that inside Augustine oh, thank you so much. Oh wow. Well, thank you for teaching Latin, good for you. I'm glad to hear that still being taught in the schools. What grade do you teach? Anywhere, 6th grade through 12th grade. Wonderful. Doing the good work. Thank you for doing that Samantha. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. You have a great day. Take care. Good luck. Bye bye. Bye. 877-929-9673 or email us words that wayward radio dot org. 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 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. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm grant Barrett until next
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"stephanie levine" 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. 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