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Mimeographs and Dittos (Rebroadcast) - 15 May 2023
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Mimeographs and Dittos (Rebroadcast) - 15 May 2023
FromA Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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54 minutes
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May 15, 2023
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How colors got their names, and a strange way to write. The terms "blue" and "orange" arrived in English via French, so why didn't we also adapt the French for black and white? Plus, not every example of writing goes in one direction across the page. In antiquity, people sometimes wrote right to left, then left to right, then back again -- the same pattern you use when mowing a lawn. There's a word for that! And: a whiff of those fragrant duplicated worksheets that used to be passed out in elementary schools. Do you call them mimeographed pages or ditto sheets? Also, three-way chili, hangry, frogmarch, the cat may look at the queen, hen turd tea, and the rhetorical backoff I'm just saying.
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Released:
May 15, 2023
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Podcast episode
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