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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Truth and Beauty - 28 May 2018
Description: Malamute, kayak, and parka are just some of the words that have found their way into English from the language of indigenous people in northern climes. • In the 1970s, some scientists argued that two quarks should be called truth and beauty. • The many layers of words and worlds we invoke when we describe someone as the apple of my eye. • To have brass on one’s face, frozen statues, good craic, prepone, agathism and agathokakological, and the positive use of I don’t care.Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn mor...