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A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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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,
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"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
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"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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"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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"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