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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In Japan, if you want to order a corndog, you ask for an Amerikan doggu (アメリカンドッグ). These types of coinages are called wasei-eigo , or “Japanese-made English,” and there are lots of them. Plus, there’s an atmospheric optical phenomenon that looks somewhat like the aurora borealis, but has a much friendlier name. Scientists refer to these ribbons of color as … Steve. And: need a synonym for the word “conspicuous”? There’s always kenspeckle . Also, nitnoy , faire la grasse matinée , sunday-to-meeting , sana, sana, colita de rana, a codebreaker who solves a years-long mystery, a brain teaser about action-packed metaphors, ghostie , gander’s arch , fluffle , and 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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0:00.0	You'll have to go a long way to match a Volkswagen in Match Trim.
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0:25.0	Extra Speck versus nearest equivalent VW trim.
0:28.0	Visit Volkswagen.co. UK for full details.
0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words to show about language and how we use it.
0:33.7	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.4	So you work hard all week, getting up early every day, and then Saturday morning morning you decide to sleep in. There's a great
0:46.2	expression for this in French. It's Fair La Gras-Martine, which basically means to make or do the fat morning isn't it lovely?
0:57.0	The fat morning the lazy morning I love it.
1:02.0	Yeah fair the glass matinee on the weekend.
1:05.6	Lue weekend.
1:07.6	Fair the grass matinee.
1:09.6	So the weekend in the smoking.
1:12.4	You mean in the smoking you mean in the smoking you mean you're wearing your
1:16.5	dinner jacket to bed or maybe you were up all night yeah there we yeah there's a
1:20.5	reason you're having a fat morning on a Saturday, right?
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