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

Rowan in Ottawa, Ontario, says her Irish mom used a puzzling word to indicate a sort of restless discontent not caused by anything in particular. It may be neamhchinnte, which means "uncertain" or "indecisive." http://waywordradio.org

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Contractions have been used in English since Elizabethan times, but conventions about their correct use go in and out of favor. Writing in 1899 in the monthly magazine Correct English, author and publisher Josephine Turck Baker advised that using proper contractions is fine as long as you consider the context. http://waywordradio.org

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Old Edwards sayings or Old Edderds sayings are homespun bits of wisdom that were dispensed on the radio show Lum and Abner. The show, which ran from 1931 to 1955, featured the fictional characters of Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody, who worked at the Jot ‘Em Down General Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, and offered such timely sayings as "Society is like pie. The upper crust doesn’t count for much unless there’s something mighty good below it.” http://waywordradio.org

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What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That's the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children's book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. http://waywordradio.org

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Grant recommends the children's book Dreams of Green: A Three Kings' Day Story (Bookshop|Amazon), about a girl and her family who move from Puerto Rico to Ohio and find ways to carry on their traditions. It's available in Spanish:  El Verde De Mis Sueños: Un Cuento De La Tradición De Los Tres Reyes Magos (Bookshop|Amazon)  (Bookshop|Amazon)
Also, the popular Maisie Dobbs series of 18 novels by Jaqueline Winspear follows the adventures of a young, working-class British woman who in 1929 becomes a private investigator (Bookshop|Amazon). http://waywordradio.org

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After our conversation about various names for a television remote control, a listener emailed to say that early remote controls produced an audible tone that activated the TV channel changer and volume, and whenever his dogs Lupe and Bubba stood up and shook themselves, the sound of the jangling tags on their collars changed the TV channels. http://waywordradio.org

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When she was a child, Chris from Santa Rosa, California, misunderstood the definition of the word vehicle--with amusing results. http://waywordradio.org

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Quiz Guy John Chaneski serves up a Common Bonds puzzle, in which the object is to guess the common idea in each of three things. For example, what's the one word that connects a grade on a report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline? http://waywordradio.org

Counting (age 2)

Lauren Hall-Lew

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