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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Like Death Eating a Cracker (rebroadcast) - 25 Apr. 2011
Description: [This episode first aired May 1, 2010.]
SUMMARY
Digital timepieces may be changing the way we talk, at least a little. There's Bob o'clock (8:08), Big o'clock (8:19), and even Pi o'clock. Also this week, what do you call that gesture with your fingers when you want to make an image larger on an iPhone? Does anyone use the expression fat chance any more? And do the expressions graveyard shift, saved by the bell, and dead ringer has anything to do with weird Victorian burial practices?FULL DESCRIPTIONAs members of the Bob o'clock Facebook...