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Andy Zaltzman introduces a look back at some of the biggest headlines of the last 12 months. May include births, deaths, political misjudgements, and inappropriate behaviour at a funeral (for the 2nd consecutive year).

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Martha from Rock Hill, South Carolina, wonders about the phrase She’s got the bots, meaning “she’s pouting.” The bots, also spelled the botts, refers to “a general malaise or moody spell,” and the bot in this case is the same bot in the botfly, a parasitic insect that infests horses. By extension, having the bots came to mean “feeling down or out of sorts.” She’s also curious about the phrase Keep your tail over the dashboard. It’s a way of urging someone to stay as energetic and upbeat as a horse whose tail perkily hangs over the dashboard of the vehicle it’s pulling. http://waywordradio.org

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A San Diego, California, listener has observed that some advertising slogans that omit articles, such as Get iPhone 14 Pro or Do what’s best for Baby. The phrasing is intentional. Advertising often relies on a compressed, headline-like style that treats a product name as if it were unique, almost like a proper noun. Removing articles creates a sleeker rhythm and positions the item as iconic rather than ordinary, so iPhone or Baby in these phrases feels elevated and universal rather than tied to a single device or child. In the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby, the Baby being brought up is a leopard. Geoffrey Leech’s 1966 book English in Advertising addresses this topic. http://waywordradio.org

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Terry from Franklin, Indiana, recalls a moment of confusion when she was working on a horse farm in south-central Pennsylvania. She asked a co-worker, "Are we going to let the stallions out today?" The co-worker responded, "No, they're already in." Terry says the conversation devolved into “Who's On First?” routine, because Terry didn’t understand that in that part of the United States, where the dialect is heavily influenced by German, let can mean “leave.” Other expressions heard in that area include leave the horse go or leave the book sit, all reflecting the multiple meanings of the German verb lassen. http://waywordradio.org

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The rare adjective finifugal describes someone “averse to endings” or “wishing something could go on forever,” whether it’s a book, a beloved TV series, a podcast, or anything else you don’t want to end. It comes from Latin finis, “end,” and fuga, “flight.” http://waywordradio.org

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In Hong Kong English, Add oil! means something like “Go on!” or “Go for it!”. A recent addition to the Oxford English Dictionary, this expression of encouragement comes from Cantonese and draws on the metaphor of literally adding oil to an engine to keep it running smoothly—lubricating, reducing friction, and providing a little extra oomph. http://waywordradio.org

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Ekphrasis is the literary device of depicting a visual work with a verbal description. A new anthology, Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography, gathers the ekphrastic poetry of more than 100 poets writing specifically in response to photographs. Edited by art critic Leah Ollman, this collection treats poems as gateways into images, and images as doorways into memory. In the poem “Things that Lose by Being Photographed” by Rebecca Lindenberg succinctly conjures a winter scene with moonlight sugaring snow, two people dancing slowly, and a penny-colored dog shifting paws in the cold—a moment captured in a photograph that becomes a tender meditation on ordinary beauty. This poem is shared with permission of the poet. http://waywordradio.org

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To describe something tiny or insignificant compared with something vast, you might reach for phrases like a drop in the ocean or a drop in the bucket. In Mandarin, there’s an equally picturesque phrase that translates as nine cows, one hair. Imagine nine large, shaggy oxen and then just a single hair among them. Now that’s tiny! http://waywordradio.org

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A Southern California resort for nudists—or naturists, as some prefer to be called—had a recent change of management, and residents received a notice that the place will now become a textile park. The word textile is often used in that community as an adjective to distinguish between those who prefer clothing and those who make a habit of going without. http://waywordradio.org

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A 1905 letter from Virginia Woolf offers comfort to anyone who lacks confidence in their own work. As a young, would-be writer, Woolf herself expressed doubt about her own abilities. It would be another 23 years before she published her groundbreaking essay, “A Room of One’s Own.” http://waywordradio.org

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Oo-ee! Quiz Guy John Chanesk’s brain-teaser is all about irregular plurals involving double O’s and double E’s. Since the plural of foot is feet and goose is geese, he says, surely this means that the plural of boot must be . . . wait, what? http://waywordradio.org

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