Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Brand Spanking New - 18 December 2017
Description: Take a look back at some notable words and phrases from 2017: Remember path of totality? How about milkshake duck? Also, a committee has to choose a new mascot for a school’s sports teams. They want to call them the Knights, as in the fighters in shining armor. But is the word knight gender-neutral? • A Spanish-speaking man tries in vain to correct peoples’ mispronunciation of his first name. But should he bother? • Also, daylighting, a grammagram, an anagram, serendipity, fidget spinner, sports dictionaries, and brand spanking new.Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and...