Loaded For Bear (Rebroadcast) - 18 March 2024

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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One way to make your new business look trendy is to use two nouns separated by an ampersand, like Peach & Creature or Rainstorm & Egg or … just about any other two-word combination. A tongue-in-cheek website will generate names like that for you. And: In the traditions of several African countries, names for babies are often inspired by conditions at the time of their birth, like a period of grief or wedding festivities, or the baby’s position when leaving the womb. In Zambia, for example, some people go by the name Bornface, because they were born face up. Also, slang from a rock-climber, who warns not to go near rock that’s chossy. Plus: a proverbial puzzle, loaded for bear, pizey, helter-skelter and other reduplicatives, shirttail relative, counting coup, just a schlook, a brainteaser, and lots more. Please fill out our listener survey! It will help us understand you, our audience, which helps make the show better! https://gum.fm/words 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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1:12.0	Perhaps you've noticed a trend among some businesses to use an ampersand between two nouns, like
1:19.4	Creighton Barrel, or here in San Diego we have a couple of wonderful restaurants cloak and pedal and soda and
1:26.1	swine. I was thinking about this because I had a few laughs yesterday when I stumbled across hipster business dot name which is on the web and you can just keep hitting refresh and it will generate all these business names that look perfectly plausible that have
1:45.9	Ampersands in the middle of two nouns.
1:49.4	So like, Zebra and Well, Day and bucket,
1:54.0	or Anger and Pearl, or Rainstorm and Egg.
1:57.0	I would go to a place called Rainstorm and Egg.
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