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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Real Corker - 21 April 2025
Description: Samantha Harveyâs novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he picked up along the way. For example, the word spanging is a blend of the words spare and changing, and means âpanhandling.â Plus, what does the doggie say? The sound of a dog barking is often written as bow wow. But why? Doesnât barking sound more like ruff ruff? Plus, slang on the ski slopes, boodling, a jazzy pangram, l...