Sock it to Me (Rebroadcast) - 18 November 2024

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In the 15th century, the word respair meant "to have hope again." Although this word fell out of use, it's among dozens collected in a new book of soothing vocabulary for troubled times. Plus, baseball slang: If a batter doesn't pour the pine," an outfielder may snag a can of corn, or "an easily caught fly ball." And the 1960s TV show "Laugh-In" spawned lots of catchphrases, such as Sock it to me, The devil made me do it, and You bet your sweet bippy. Don't know them? Well, Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls! Plus tiffin, worldcraft, cultellation, backslash vs. forward slash, come-heres, bi-weekly, and a witty word game that's much ado about nothing. 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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0:26.6	You're listening to Away With Words to Show About Language and How We Use It.
0:30.1	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:31.3	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:32.5	Hey, Grant, thank you so much for sending me that collection of slang from the sporting news in the 19, what was it,
0:38.2	1933? Oh yeah, the baseball slang from 1933. I knew you'd love that. It's just the thing we like
0:44.6	to sit back and forth, isn't it? I know. Baseball is just this endless repository of fantastic
0:50.7	slang. It's so poetic. I love, for example, fishing trip, which is swinging at a bad ball.
0:57.4	He took a fishing trip. That's totally what they're doing. It's just like throwing the bad out there, just kind of trying to hit any junk that comes their way.
1:04.5	Right. And sometimes they end up with a line drive to the catcher. That's when they miss the third strike. A line drive to the catcher.
1:15.3	Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, but somebody who's really good is going to pour on the pine. They're
1:20.4	going to hit that ball really solidly. Pour on the pine. And one that really jumped out at me
1:26.5	was the term collisions. Oh, yeah. I think we've mentioned that on the show. And one that really jumped out at me was the term collisions.
1:28.6	Oh, yeah.
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