Navel-Gazing (Rebroadcast) - 7 October 2024

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In 1971, when a new public library opened in Troy, Michigan, famous authors and artists were invited to write letters to the city’s youngest readers, extolling the many benefits of libraries. One of the loveliest was from E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web. Plus, you may think navel-gazing is a relatively new idea — but it goes back at least to the 14th century, when meditating monks really did look like they were studying their bellies! Also, why don’t actors in movies say goodbye at the end of a phone conversation? For that matter, why don’t some people answer their smartphones with “Hello”? Plus, a poetic puzzle, duke’s mixture, small as the little end of nothing, Chesapeake Bay crabbing lingo, omphaloskepsis, nightingale, light a shuck, bumpity-scrapples, the big mahoff, and if a bullfrog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his butt. 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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0:13.6	Film the band!
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0:28.0	Apple Intelligence coming December 2024.
0:30.0	You're listening to A Way With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.8	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.8	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.2	The old English word Galan means to call or to sing enchantments.
0:41.2	And you don't see that root in very many English words. There's some really,
0:46.2	really old words like Galder, which is a charm or incantation. But there is a familiar word that you'll see it in, and that word is Nightingale.
0:57.1	It's a bird noted for the melodious song which is heard at night as well as during the day.
1:02.0	It's literally a night singer from Old English
1:04.8	Galan meaning to call or sing enchantments and I was reminded of this in a tweet
1:10.5	by writer Robert McFarland who mentioned the etymology and described the nightingale
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