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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What exactly is a planet? Controversy over this question led to Pluto’s redefinition, along with a brand-new English word. And: Some people now use the phrase all the things! to mean and whatnot or you know what I mean. This new sense of all the things comes from a hilarious cartoon in which someone approaches daily tasks with exceptional vigor. Speaking of which, if you’re working hard and burning the midnight oil, what kind of oil are you burning, anyway? Plus curfew, shoo it away!, a kibitzing quiz, Irish wristwatch, quemar las pestañas, the Hawk that’s a cold wind, hot as brinjer, virar a noite, and sigma male. 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	You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.8	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.8	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:06.7	We got an email from Whitney Catania in Providence, Rhode Island.
0:11.5	And the day before she wrote us, her two-year-old daughter June had been playing
0:15.4	on the slide in their backyard. And then June started screaming that there was a bug on the
0:20.6	slide. And Whitney writes, I told her to shoe it away the next thing I know she has
0:25.4	her shoe up on the slide I laughed so hard and in fact she thought it was so funny that she snapped a photo and she sent us
0:36.4	Grant this adorable picture of this little curly-haired girl with her shoe up on this slide,
0:42.0	trying to shoe away the bug.
0:45.0	Of course they are different words.
0:47.0	How is she to know?
0:48.0	She did the best that she could with what she had.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	But the shoe away is SHO oh and it's not related to the footwear but
0:57.2	she is the most adorable child though she looks like a handful. I know that little blonde curly hair. You got to watch out for the curly
1:05.2	headed ones. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, she looks like fun. But yeah, shoe
1:10.3	shoh-oh-o may come from the sound of that you make when you're waving away, like chickens or something. And of course, that's an old horse racing term. Yeah, we have more information about shoe in as a horse racing term on our website.
1:26.7	And you can also find a dozen ways to reach us by email,
1:29.8	what's app, social media, and more, or just call us toll free in the United States and Canada,
1:35.6	877 929, 9673.
1:39.6	Hi, you have a way with words.
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