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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Potato Wagon - 20 January 2025
Description: Thunderstorms might sound scary, but playful explanations for all those booms can help reassure little ones: How about the potato wagonâs rolling over the bridge? Or the angels are going bowling? Plus, if you just finished enjoying an audiobook, you might say youâve read it, but a listener asks if thereâs a better word. And: towns with names that are three letters long â or less. Theyâre fun to say, and super easy to spell! The town of Eek, Alaska, for example. Plus, the use of humming to mean âstinking,â slashfic and shipping, woodshedding, ratcatcher, bib and tucker, a memoir that f...