Walkie Talkie (Rebroadcast) - 17 June 2024

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A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

One of the most powerful words you’ll ever hear — and one of the most poignant — isn’t in dictionaries yet. But it probably will be one day. The word is endling, and it means “the last surviving member of a species.” The surprising story behind this word includes a doctor in a Georgia convalescent center, a museum exhibit in Australia, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and much more. Also: how important is linguistic accuracy when it comes to a movie? Does it detract from your enjoyment if a fictional character utters a word or phrase that you suspect was not in use at that point in history? Finally: what’s the first big word you remember using — the one you just couldn’t wait to show off to your family and friends? Plus: a rhyming puzzle, fulano, in the soup, bedroom suit vs. bedroom suite, swarf, boondocks, good people, and tons more. 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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1:06.0	You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it.
1:10.0	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett.
1:12.0	Do you remember the first big word you learned, the one that you just couldn't stop saying after you learned it?
1:19.0	Gerald Blundin asked that question on our Facebook group, and he said that for him he was about four or five years old. that
1:25.0	he was about four or five years old and the word was conflagration,
1:27.0	meaning a big fire, his grandmother taught him that word.
1:31.0	And I was thinking about that, Grant. The first big word that I learned was logical.
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