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

A Winter Dictionary (Bookshop|Amazon) by Paul Anthony Jones includes some words to lift your spirits. The verb whicken involves the lengthening of days in springtime, a variant of quicken, meaning "come to life." Another word, breard, is an old term that means "the first shoots of a plant visible above the earth." Jones is also a big fan of the uplifting word respair. http://waywordradio.org

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The new book Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words (Bookshop|Amazon) by linguist Michael Erard is a deeply researched, often intensely personal exploration of the ways people communicate at both the beginning and end of life. http://waywordradio.org

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In a nautical context, the word heave refers to the action of a ship rising or lifting with the waves. The past tense is hove, and if a boat hove into view, it slowly came into sight, as if gradually appearing on the horizon. http://waywordradio.org

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Homer in Kingsport, Tennessee, says that when Homer came in after curfew, his dad would say, "You guys have been out swarping, haven't you?" Swarping is related to a variety of dialect terms in Scotland and Northern England that have to do with swiping, swapping, swinging, striking, and warping. With the insertion of an R, as can occur in certain dialect pronunciations, swipe or swap becomes swarp or sworp. A dress that moves in a swinging motion might be said to be swarpy. One can take a swarp with a rake by using a swinging motion. Swarping can also mean getting into mischief or behaving in a boisterous manner. http://waywordradio.org

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An alcoholic who's been sober for 29 years wonders if she's overly sensitive to the terms non-alcoholic and alcohol-free being used with reference to food and drink. The problem is that alcoholic has more than one meaning. It can refer to someone who is addicted to alcohol, but it can also describe a substance that contains alcohol. Compounding the problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has its own definitions of alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and the word non-alcohol is used as an adjective in the world of science and chemistry. http://waywordradio.org

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The mascot for Horace Mann Elementary School in Washington, D.C. is a centaur, that mythological creature that's half-man, half-equine. Say the name of the school several times quickly, and you'll see why. http://waywordradio.org

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The crossword clue is "Bread machine?" The answer has three letters. What is it? http://waywordradio.org

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The Texas Folklore Society's book The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954 (Bookshop|Amazon) offers some wonderful browsing, including this saying to describe an environment that's too loud: You can’t hear your ears in this place! http://waywordradio.org

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

Counting (age 2)

Lauren Hall-Lew

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