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A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The phrase old as Methuselah describes someone quite advanced in years. In ancient scripture, Methuselah was a man who somehow lived to the ripe old age of 969. Plus, a heartwarming book for children tells the story of how a Puerto Rican family adapted their traditions to fit their new life in the Midwest. And if you say This ain't my first rodeo, it simply means you've seen it all before. Plus, barn find, scrumbunctious, neamhchinnte, got melon, a three-way puzzle, Old Edderd sayings, a childhood misunderstanding, and Your mother wears Army boots! 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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0:27.8	the end of the script. You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:34.1	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. What if instead of being an inanimate
0:39.4	object, a dictionary were alive? And what if that dictionary also had feelings? And that dictionary
0:47.4	felt sad because unlike all the other books on the shelf, she didn't have a story to tell. She
0:53.6	just had lots of words that were
0:55.4	arranged in alphabetical order. Well, that's the idea behind a new children's book called
1:01.4	The Dictionary Story. It's by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. And this is a book that's lavishly
1:08.4	illustrated, and the story is a little bit hard to explain, but I'll try.
1:13.1	One day a hungry alligator gets loose from the A section of the dictionary, and it goes chasing after a donut over in the D's.
1:20.5	And the donut rolls away, and the chase continues through the dictionary, and the alligator and the donut run into a ghost and a puddle and a few
1:28.5	other things, and then over in the T section, everything goes topsy-turvy when they run into a
1:34.7	tornado. So how does all this get back in order? Well, that's what the alphabets for. So this is an
1:41.7	imaginative book, and if you're an adult and you're looking at it long enough,
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