Name: Counting (age 2) by Lauren Hall-Lew
Duration: 15 s
Description: My son counting to "eleventeen" at 35 months old.

TORCALL AN TUNNAG THAITNEACH

OIDHCHE MHATH ÈISG BHIG!

NA DÙISG TÌGEAR

RUDAN A BHIOS A' GLUASAD - MO CHUAIRT A-MUIGH

A resident of Michigan's scenic Beaver Island shares the term, boodling, which the locals use to denote the social activity of leisurely wandering the island, often with cold, fermented beverages. There have been various proposed etymologies for this particular use of boodle as a verb, but boodle in this sense is most likely a nonce coinage, simply made up for the occasion, which then persisted among the islanders. http://waywordradio.org

1655-Caller-Cynthia-Boodling

Why do we write the sound of a dog barking as bow wow? Isn't that noise more like woof, woof or arf, arf or ruff ruff? Surprisingly, the oldest of these is bow wow, or as William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest (Bookshop|Amazon), bowgh wawgh. It's difficult to render these sounds in writing, but in Catalan, it's bup bup; Italian bao bao; Greek, γαβ γαβ (gav gav); Spanish, guau guau; German, wuff wuff; Korean, 멍멍 (meong meong), Albanian ham ham. http://waywordradio.org

1655-Caller-Sam-Bow-Wow

A woman in Lincoln, Nebraska, says her father, a Missouri cattleman, would answer the question How are you? by replying Couldn’t be better with less in all my life! http://waywordradio.org

1655-Couldn't-Be-Better-With-Less

A member of the ski patrol at Vermont's Sugarbush Resort shares some workplace slang. Boilerplate denotes hard-packed snow with a ruffled pattern that makes skis chatter, death cookies are random chunks that could cause an accident, and escargot refers to slowpokes still on the mountain at the end of the day. http://waywordradio.org

1655-Intro-Ski-Patrol-Slang

Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been shopping at stores with misleading names. For example,he might buy baked goods from a bakery, but if he were to visit a store that sells flying mammals, he might assume it has something to do with power cells. What kind of "store" would that be? http://waywordradio.org

1655-Word-Quiz-False-Stores

My son counting to "eleventeen" at 35 months old.

Counting (age 2)

Lauren Hall-Lew

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