Easy as Pie - 16 September 2024

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How hot is it? Well, poet Dylan Thomas found lots of memorable ways to describe a heat wave. In one letter to a friend, he wrote that it was so hot “My brains are hanging out like a dog’s tongue.” And: pestering country music stars for selfies is a big no-no in Nashville. In fact, the locals even have a word for it. Also, why do we say something’s easy as pie? After all, baking a pie is a whole lot of work! Plus, nunatak, dwadle, Zaunkönig, a Greek-inspired brain teaser, icing vs. frosting vs. filling, gherm, behead vs. decapitate, manavalins, and more! Have a dingle day! 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	We interrupt programming to bring you this breaking news.
0:05.6	Joan, prolific diamond thief will be released on Sunday.
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0:15.0	Joan is known to use disguises and has many aliases.
0:19.0	She may appear as a mother, lover, liar, or a thief.
0:24.3	Joan, start Sunday at nine on I TV one and I TV eggs.
0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language, and how we use it.
0:33.9	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.0	A few weeks ago, we talked about the slang from a British research station in Antarctica.
0:42.6	And Grant, you will remember that one of the terms we discussed
0:45.1	is the term Dingell Day.
0:47.0	Right, for a clear day.
0:48.0	No clouds, nothing obscuring the view.
0:50.4	Right.
0:51.4	And we heard from Malcolm Dingell, who lives in the city of Worcester, England, and he thinks that the source of this phrase may be his father, Richard Dingell, who is a marine micropalontologist who worked for the British Antarctic
1:07.3	survey in the 1990s. And it turns out that in Antarctica there's a nun attack named after Richard Dingell.
1:15.1	Now a nun attack, N-U-N-A-T-A-K is an Inuit term, and a nun attack is an isolated mountain peak that's projecting through surrounding glacial ice.
1:27.1	And Malcolm shared with me what his dad wrote at the time.
1:30.6	He said, that nun attack was a place that I landed on from the Navy helicopter and took some samples and fossils
1:36.4	I suppose I was the first person to set foot on it in a bleak and uninviting place it was too
1:42.3	Nice views though to the southwest and
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