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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Ribbon fall. Gallery forest. You won’t find terms like these in most dictionaries, but they and hundreds like them are discussed by famous writers in the book Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. The book is an intriguing collection of specialized vocabulary that invites us to look more closely at the natural world — and delight in its language. Also, how and why the Southern drawl developed. Plus, the phrase It’s a thing. This expression may seem new, but It’s a thing has been a thing for quite a long time. How long? Even Jane Austen used it! And: hourglass valley, thee vs. thou, bitchin’, a word game inspired by Noah Webster, Willie off the pickle boat, who did it and ran, Powder River! Let ‘er buck!, and shedloads more. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	You're listening to Away with Words this show about language and how we use it.
0:33.3	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.8	Ephemeral Creek, Ribbon Fall, Hourglass Valley. Gallery Forest.
0:44.0	You won't see these terms in most dictionaries,
0:47.0	but they've been used for years in various locales
0:50.0	to describe the things that people see in and on the land.
0:54.0	And they're part of a vocabulary that most of us rarely, if ever, encounter,
0:59.0	a vocabulary of place. Like take the term gallery forest for example. It's a forest that grows
1:05.7	along the banks of a river in open prairie country. Sometimes their canopies on
1:10.9	either side grow close enough together to form a tunnel-like corridor over
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