Make a Beeline - 19 August 2024

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If you make a beeline for something, you’re taking the shortest route possible. You’re also mimicking bee-havior! After a bee has visited enough flowers to gather nectar, she flies straight back to the hive. And: Even a word like throttlebottom looks gorgeous if a calligrapher gets hold of it. Plus, the Oxford English Dictionary added the word babyccino. It’s a hot, frothy drink for kids — all milk and caffeine-free. Also, I don’t care to, a quiz about imaginary schools, how to pronounce species, how to guess someone’s dialect, joner and jonered, ejectamenta, snout-fair, and it’s dark under the table. 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	Have you seen the Real Madrid lineup?
0:02.0	Colin Bridgerton's back.
0:03.0	With the undead and it's all about the Iron Throne.
0:06.0	You have to watch it.
0:08.0	What's it on? Bridgerton? Netflix.
0:10.0	The matches on TNT sports.
0:11.0	How should the dragon only on now?
0:13.2	Ugh, that's the one I don't have.
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0:28.0	Content may vary terms apply.
0:30.0	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. Grant, how's your feet and ears?
0:38.8	My what? My feet and ears?
0:41.5	Yeah, how's your feet? How are my elbows and my knees? I don't know. I mean how are you
0:47.2	frogin? How am I frogging? Are we talking about the video game or talking about going out with a lantern and trying to catch frogs?
0:55.7	What are you talking about Martha?
0:56.9	Well, actually, in the case of froging, I'm talking about your health.
1:00.3	You know, are you nimble?
1:01.7	Are you hopping around like a from yeah yeah these are just a couple of
1:06.9	silly greetings that have come across recently I was thinking about the fact that you know especially among people who know each other well like you and I do,
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