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PTH4.14 | Thailand and Cambodia's Escalating Border Dispute

You might be surprised to learn that a “hoosier” isn’t necessarily from Indiana. In St. Louis, Missouri, the term hoosier has a whole other meaning. And: Scotland is the home of the Golden Spurtle world championship, but what exactly IS a spurtle? Some of the finest kitchens are stocked with spurtles. Plus, a love poem from a now-extinct language still echoes through the centuries. Also, boire en wifi and other synonyms for airsipping, an anagrammatic word challenge, thivel, good times at the hosie, Proto-Indo-European, sprit, bully pulpit, the vocabulary of Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania, water sommelier, and a punny riddle. http://waywordradio.org

Mox Nix (Full Episode)

CNET. (2025, August 7). OpenAI unveils GPT-5: Everything announced at OpenAI’s Summer update in 12 minutes [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9pIAXkELw

TH4.15 | OpenAI Unveils GPT-5

PTH4.15 | GPT-5-A Leap Towards AGI and Creative Intelligence

Why is it harder to talk if we don’t move our hands? Even when we’re talking on the phone we feel the need to gesture to aid communication. A new book offers a look at the relatively new field of gesture studies. And: Ever wonder why we describe the American flag as “red, white, and blue?” Why not “blue, white, and red?” Plus, everyone should have a hellbox for tossing their discards! But where exactly would you find one? Also: a tall glass of water, since dirt was young, since King Hatchet was a hammer, since Hector was a pup, a brain teaser about multiple letters, sold down the river, an alliterative drinking game, upper-case vs. lower-case, why we say red, white, and blue and not blue, white, and red, and how to pronounce pecan. http://waywordradio.org

Tall Drink of Water (Full Episode)

Source: Business Insider. (2020, April 25). Why Rolls-Royce cars are so expensive | So expensive [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzDLpSkQTg 

TH4.16 | Why Rolls-Royce Cars Are So Expensive - So Expensive

PTH4.16 | Crushed Diamonds & Custom DNA: The Rolls-Royce of Luxury

If you like to use emojis, you have some 3800 to choose from—and the organization that approves them is about to announce even more. But do we really need a purple splatter emoji? Or one that looks like Sasquatch? Plus: If you’re retired, you may jokingly call yourself a “geezer.” In the UK, though, the term is downright derogatory. Also, why good eggs make much better company than bad apples. And how to pronounce macabre, the difference between mass nouns and count nouns, an Italian phrase about foolishness, alight from the front, Japanese pager slang, a brain teaser for bookworms, vermilion, crimson, carmine, and cochineal, and You thought like Nelly. http://waywordradio.org

Good Egg, Bad Apple (Full Episode)

Source: Search Party. (2023, July 25). How England’s football league is breaking the sport [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeXyKVvhb0 

TH4.17 | How Englands football league is breaking the sport - YouTube

PTH4.17 | The Premier League_Reshaping European Football

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