Deviled Eggs (Rebroadcast) - 14 October 2024

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment almost 40 years after it was used in a commercial for Malt-O-Meal hot cereal. And: what do you call that room where the whole family gathers? The family room? The den? The TV room? Names for that part of a home go in and out of fashion. Finally, if you're suffering from writer's block, try going easy on yourself for a while. Sometimes a writer's imagination needs to lie fallow in order to become fertile again. Plus, a trivia test about domain names, criminently and other minced oaths, pure-D vs. pure-T, deviled eggs vs. dressed eggs, pixelated vs. pixilated, how to pronounce aegis, and I got the Motts! 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]. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:04.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:05.0	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:07.0	Nancy Gabriel wrote to us from Ithaca, New York to say that her daughter was a precocious reader as a child.
0:13.4	When her little brother was twoish
0:15.3	and she was not quite six, she said that her brother was a sonophigan.
0:19.8	Oh, oh, I got it.
0:22.0	Do you know what it is? Yes, but tell me more about the story.
0:25.4	Okay, well, her parents were baffled. Her daughter said that she called him a
0:29.7	sonophigan because he was being naughty. She got it from one of her books, I bet.
0:34.0	It's a word she learned from reading, I bet.
0:36.0	Yep, yep.
0:37.0	Do you know the word?
0:38.0	Son of a gun.
0:39.0	Yes.
0:40.0	She just put the stress in the wrong places.
0:44.0	Yeah, yeah, bless her heart.
0:46.0	Yeah, and then when Nancy's daughter was in second grade,
0:49.0	she and a couple of naughty classmates went into their little town's corner store and the plan was
0:54.6	for these two naughty kids to go into the store and swipe some candy and Nancy's
0:59.1	daughter would stand watch outside. Well the little kids got caught all of which Nancy found out
1:05.1	because her daughter came home really upset and eventually confessed that she
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