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Champing out with his boy, shooting for Grand Champ and Shooting to Champ out his girl before her retirement Nick Torres joins us this week!If you have any questions, comments or topics or would like to be a  part of the podcast please email us at thedawgfellaspodcast@gmail.com. Also make sure you follow us on our social media accounts to stay up to date with the podcast and our special guests and other cool things we have going on! Special Nick TorresFB: Nicolas TorresIG: @The_DawgFellas_PodcastIG: @_houseofbullies_IG: @texas_frenchie_plugIG: @interstate_27_frenchiesIG: @noserope_lyfeIG: @easterwoodkevinFB: The DawgFellas PodcastFB: Shelbi ReaFB: Anthony Ray ZimmerleFB: Amito ZerrataFB: Gabriel Flores FB: Kevin Easterwood

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Its been a long time between drinks:Fiji champing at the bit for quarterfinal.

In the 11am hour of The K&C Masterpiece, more Cowboys vs Chargers conversations, MLB on FOX's Ken Rosenthal, and Gridiron Gravy

Rick and Dave are back for hour 2 and discuss the Jets as training camp approaches and wide receiver Denzel Mims being traded to the Lions. Plus Knobservations and DIHIF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A year on from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, William speaks to Viktor Yelensky, the new Lead of Ukraine's Religious Freedom Watchdog, about what the future may now hold for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, given its ties to the Moscow Patriarchate. The 'Champing' or 'camping in a Church' season begins again soon. Created by the Churches Conservation Trust, it helps raise funds towards maintaining both active and redundant Churches within their portfolio. We send our reporter Mark Hutchings to 'Champ' at St. Bartholomew's, Lower Failand, Bristol. As the staggering death toll continues to rise following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, we hear from Franciscan Priest, Father Fadi Azar in Latakia, Syria and Ravi Singh, CEO and Founder of Khalsa Aid, on his return from Turkey, about the impact of this catastrophe both on the community and the supply of aid. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales recently unveiled new artworks depicting Mary and Jesus with different ethnicities. Chine McDonald, Director of Theos and Author of 'God Is Not A White Man' explains why it's important to have such representation in religious iconography. Leanna Hosea reports on the Native Americans forcibly removed from their homes as children and placed in residential schools, stripped of their spiritual beliefs and subjected to emotional and sexual abuse. Leanna's report covers themes that some listeners could find disturbing. Details of organisations - in the UK - offering information and support with child sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline. And the full story is on Heart and Soul: Stripped of my Spirituality, BBC World Service, available now on BBC Sounds. Producers: Jill Collins and Katy Booth Production co-ordinator: David Baguley Editor: Helen Grady

“Champing” is a combination of “church” and “camping” and Fiona from the Churches Conservation Trust tells Dave all about the success of this concept in the UK

Welcome to another episode of Hashtag Just Sayin' In this episode we discuss Would you go "Champing"? We talk what that is, cars catching, and Joe finally saw Terrifier 2. Please don't forget to check out our Youtube Channel, where we post the first 20-30 mins of the show…for free. You can't beat free. We'd be forever in your debt if you could jump over to our Youtube channel and Subscribe - and tell a friend. If you haven't got a friend, we'll be happy to be your friend, After you subscribe. You can also follow us on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter. That's all of them, correct? Does anyone read this far down?

Quincy Hendrix founder and CEO of Tri-Art Bullies , is a young up and coming heavy hitter in the American Bully breed. In episode 18 we touch all the bases. Champing out your productions, building from the ground up. Utilizing your network to help see growth. Most of all we talk DOGS !! Join us as we sit down with Quincy and discuss his vision, his journey and an in-depth look at running and marketing a kennel operation.Instagram.com/xdogFacebook.com/xdogvestYouTube.com/xdogtv www.xdog.com

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Welcome back, We had an off week but now we are back and raring to go! Champing at the bit even. To usher us in is our boy Noah talking about the pantheon of gods in the Lord of the Rings universe and how they emulate the reality of our God. Then Elias talks about the Pixar short The Blue Umbrella and talks about how important it is to always be kind and work in service to those around you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ocvepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ocvepod/support

Paul and Clark talk about Clark's San Fran trip, weird news about the Pope, McDonald's, BMW and Indian Cricket. Feedback, comments or want to be a guest? Reach us at wetalkedabouthis99@gmail.com or our website at www.wetalkedaboutthis.net.

Anne and Renata have been investigating paranormal occurrences for the past twenty years. Join them for a weekly wrap up of everything paranormal, supernatural, and mystical including haunted object discovery and the history of weird and bizarre happenings. There is Spooky Chat as well as regular visits from Kristy of Spells and Spirits for 'Kristy's Magical Moments'. Listen live on Sunday nights from 8pm! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loic Albert, currently the scientific instrument expert for NIRISS (imager and spectrograph), the Canadian instrument to be deployed on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2018

table td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3608 Wed 2022-06-01 Battling with English - part 5 Dave Morriss 3609 Thu 2022-06-02 Linux Inlaws S01E57: Operating System Level Virtualisation and Martin's Faith monochromec 3610 Fri 2022-06-03 DOS Wildcards; File Attributes Ahuka 3611 Mon 2022-06-06 HPR Community News for May 2022 HPR Volunteers 3612 Tue 2022-06-07 Who is Evil Steve? Part 2 Lurking Prion 3613 Wed 2022-06-08 Man buys cheap Adirondack chair dnt 3614 Thu 2022-06-09 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PEX Part 02- The Joy of PEX - What is it and how is it us Trey 3615 Fri 2022-06-10 I am a troll and I'm trolling HPR, trolling HPR, trolling HPR. Ken Fallon 3616 Mon 2022-06-13 Filling free Slots from the Reserve Queue Dave Morriss 3617 Tue 2022-06-14 admin admin S01E05: To Do List - 2FA Lurking Prion 3618 Wed 2022-06-15 The nnn terminal file manager Archer72 3619 Thu 2022-06-16 Linux Inlaws S01E58: Kubernetes and Friends and Sarah monochromec 3620 Fri 2022-06-17 Photo storage, backups, and workflow Ahuka 3621 Mon 2022-06-20 Watching YouTube in 2022 Dave Morriss 3622 Tue 2022-06-21 My Network Setup. Some Guy On The Internet 3623 Wed 2022-06-22 Internet Security - Child Edition Lurking Prion 3624 Thu 2022-06-23 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PEX Parts 3 & 4 Trey 3625 Fri 2022-06-24 Shell Tips and Snippets - Collaborative Effort Carl 3626 Mon 2022-06-27 The stuff Evil Steve doesn't want you to know S01E06: Use a Password Manager Lurking Prion 3627 Tue 2022-06-28 Only Key Duo operat0r 3628 Wed 2022-06-29 Building a Mobile Computer Battlestation: Extended Power Supply Mechatroniac 3629 Thu 2022-06-30 Linux Inlaws S01E59: The Show with Red Pandas Mosaic Killers and Metal Corrosion monochromec Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 25 comments in total. Past shows There are 2 comments on 2 previous shows: hpr3531 (2022-02-14) "Barrier: Software KVM" by Windigo. Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2022-06-30: "Excellent !" hpr3606 (2022-05-30) "Infinity is just a big number and other proofs" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Kevin O'Brien on 2022-06-01: "Not like me" This month's shows There are 23 comments on 10 of this month's shows: hpr3608 (2022-06-01) "Battling with English - part 5" by Dave Morriss. Comment 1: Stache_AF on 2022-06-01: "The Eggcorn That Gets Me"Comment 2: Windigo on 2022-06-01: "Eggcorns"Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2022-06-01: "Champing and chomping"Comment 4: Dave Morriss on 2022-06-01: "A robot did it and ran away" hpr3609 (2022-06-02) "Linux Inlaws S01E57: Operating System Level Virtualisation and Martin's Faith" by monochromec. Comment 1: Mechatroniac on 2022-06-22: "Unite Germany and Russia" hpr3613 (2022-06-08) "Man buys cheap Adirondack chair" by dnt. Comment 1: Windigo on 2022-06-08: "Adirondack chairs"Comment 2: dnt on 2022-06-08: "Re: Adirondack chairs" hpr3615 (2022-06-10) "I am a troll and I'm trolling HPR, trolling HPR, trolling HPR." by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Windigo on 2022-06-10: "Disappointing"Comment 2: FXB on 2022-06-12: "A Troll is a Troll."Comment 3: Mechatroniac on 2022-06-13: "fucking bullshit" hpr3617 (2022-06-14) "admin admin S01E05: To Do List - 2FA" by Lurking Prion. Comment 1: Stache_AF on 2022-06-14: "Google Authenticator"Comment 2: Lurking Prion on 2022-06-15: "Google Authenticator Improvements"Comment 3: Some Guy On The Internet on 2022-06-18: "I agree."Comment 4: LurkingPrion on 2022-06-22: "No Security..?"Comment 5: one_of_spoons on 2022-06-26: "Two factor authentication : "andOTP"" hpr3619 (2022-06-16) "Linux Inlaws S01E58: Kubernetes and Friends and Sarah" by monochromec. Comment 1: Sarah on 2022-06-22: "Hello!" hpr3620 (2022-06-17) "Photo storage, backups, and workflow" by Ahuka. Comment 1: Some Guy On The Internet on 2022-06-18: "Great Show"Comment 2: Kevin O'Brien on 2022-06-18: "Glad I could help" hpr3621 (2022-06-20) "Watching YouTube in 2022" by Dave Morriss. Comment 1: Mechatroniac on 2022-06-22: "Youtube is no good anymore"Comment 2: Mechatroniac on 2022-06-23: "Mr Teslonian" hpr3624 (2022-06-23) "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PEX Parts 3 & 4" by Trey. Comment 1: b-yeezi on 2022-06-26: "Unexpected relevance" hpr3625 (2022-06-24) "Shell Tips and Snippets - Collaborative Effort" by Carl. Comment 1: dnt on 2022-06-25: "shift"Comment 2: Carl on 2022-06-27: "Thanks" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2022-June/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Any other business Publishing code for the HPR site The question came up during the month - is the HPR site code open source, and if so where is it? Older HPR shows on archive.org, phase 2 Now that all shows from number 1 to the latest have been uploaded to the Internet Archive there are other tasks to perform. We are reprocessing and re-uploading shows in the range 871 to 2429 as explained in the Community News show notes released in May 2022. 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Have you ever gone camping? 你有去露營過嗎？ Camping can be fun. It's great to sleep in a tent and hear the sounds of nature. 睡在帳篷裡，聽大自然的聲音，感覺很棒。 Often, people go camping in the mountains or near a nice lake. Some people in England go camping in a very different place. They go camping in a church. Yeah, a church! 在英國，有的人會去教堂露營。 There are lots of old churches in England. Many of them were built hundreds of years ago. Some of the churches are so old they have bats in them. 有一些很老的教堂裡甚至有蝙蝠。 Well, maybe sleeping in a church with bats wouldn't be so great. There's even a name for camping in a church. It's called "champing." Champing is two words put together: church and camping. So, champing is a new word. Champing這個新的英文字，是把教堂church和露營camping兩個字拼在一起。 When you go champing in England, there are beds in the church. 在英國去champing的時候，教堂裡面有床。 There are chairs and candles, too. But the candles aren't real ones. They have batteries. 也有椅子和蠟燭，但是蠟燭不是真的，是用電池的。 There is also a toilet, but no shower. 也有馬桶，但是沒有地方洗澡。 What do you think? Would you like to try "champing?" ________________________________ Vocabulary 在教堂裡面過夜，跟真正的戶外露營，感覺一定大不同。 1. Camping 露營。 Let's go camping next weekend. 我們下周末去露營吧。 Again? We just returned from camping in Penghu! 又去？我們才剛從澎湖露營回來！ This will be different. 這次會不一樣。 2. Church 教堂。 We're going camping in a church. 我們要去教堂露營。 Inside a church? 去教堂裡面？ No, that's a bad idea. 這是個壞主意。 I won't be able to sleep before God. 我在神的面前會睡不著。 3. Sleep 睡覺。 Come on, it'll be fun. 去啦，會很好玩的。 You sleep well everywhere you go. 你到哪裡都睡得很好啊。 No, not in a church. 不，教堂裡不行。 4. Tent 帳篷。 Let's still sleep in a tent on the mountains. 我們還是睡在山上的帳篷裡吧。 You're right. I prefer a tent, too. 你說得對，我也比較喜歡帳篷。 Do you like camping? Please read these words. camping 露營 church 教堂 sleep 睡覺 tent 帳篷 ________________________________ Quiz 1. Where can people go camping in a church? A: In America B: In England C: In Canada 2. What can you NOT do when you go camping in a church? A: Go to the toilet B: Sleep on a bed C: Take a shower 3. What is camping in a church called? A: "Church Camp" B: "Champing" C: "Churching" Answers 1. B 2. C 3. B

Today on Good Company, we hear about some unique camping spots to spend a night! Then we lace up our boots for National Take A Hike Day, and we wrap up with an incredible story of survival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you know the difference between champing and chomping at the bit? We do...WELL, Timmy does. Now you will too. Also, the boys discuss the Virtual Draft-a-thon and you can watch that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzGejqwUP5w

Our ear is to the ground as we discuss a couple of listener voicemails about the notion of "Champing" and being "Champed" and whether anger management classes really work.   Jamie Ryan is the Local Sporting Hero after taking 21 wickets in his last three bowling innings and scoring a free season!    Mitch talk about Olympic sports that have been dropped from the games over the years and the largest crowds ever recorded at the Olympic Games.    Cameron Smith has retired but we have waited to it was out of the news to talk about it. The AFL has a new "Man on the Mark" rule so we have to take a 'stand'.       Uber is missing out on a ‘huge’ number of potential business opportunities so we try to help them out.    Leigh was back to his best on the mic this week thanks to the energy, focus and clarity he got from drinking Alchemy Cordial Australia’s Energy Chai Elixir. You can get yours here and use WGTC10 to get 10% off.

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the federal NDP's long-term care policy release, the creation of new political parties and the Republicans eating their own in Wyoming. Do Canadians care about public vs. private delivery? Has negative partisanship completely consumed American politics? And why does Stephen have so little regard for everybody's time that he'd bother to talk about the Alberta Party? Zain Velji, as always, picks the questions and keeps everybody in line.

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Ursula Burkert präsentiert einen neuen Reisetrend in England: "Ein Bett zwischen Altar und Kirchenbänken - Champing". Eine Reportage von Stefan Spath

Alright, they're back again, this time with a real episode and not that supplemental crap that you all put up with last time. This ep sees Jake and Trav talking about haircuts, Darksiders 3, Mario Golf, and a few notable personal accomplishments. 

På norra Öland ligger Sveriges mest kända camping, eller semesterdestination, eller som de själva kallar det; CHAMPING. Böda Sand är en plats som ingen annan. Här arbetar under högsäsong 200 personer med att serva de ibland 10 000 besökarna. I avsnittet får vi lära oss hur vd Anna Barkevall får alla att känna sig delaktiga i att uppfylla visionen om familjens bästa semesterupplevelse. Vi lär oss hur Viktor Jerner tänker när han digitaliserar kommunikation och flöden och vi får såklart träffa Monica och Bertil som berättar vad de verkligen inte gillar och varför de kommer tillbaka år efter år efter år. Mot Böda! www.basetool.se

Skating into this week's Double Shot at Love ("Hurricane Angelina" & "Roller Skating on Thin Ice"), the Fanily Reunion crew brings you multiple seized joke opportunities, a passionate defense of Full/er House, and exclusive words from Derynn, herself! So don't cry in a closet next to hanging hair extensions - clink your glass so hard that it breaks (like Colin does at the end of the episode)!CONTACT US:jerseyshorefanilyreunion@gmail.comig: @jerseyshorefanilyreuniontwitter: @fanilyreunion

For the latest Badwatch Andy is joined by co-host Will who is CHAMPing at the bit. They watched Season 2, episode 1 of Taken, the now-canceled Netflix show based on a b-movie with a very particular set of skills. Andy complains about TV hackers. Will invents reverse babysitting, and brings the first reality shows to Goodwatch!   Goodwatches: Property Brothers Bosch Jersey Shore Family Vacation   Badwatch 2: If you think Taken sounds good, you’ll love Max (2015)

Interview with Peter de Jager; News Items: Release of Golden Rice, How Intelligent is AI, Atomic Clock May Replace GPS System; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Audio book, Champing at the Bit; Science or Fiction

Interview with Peter de Jager; News Items: Release of Golden Rice, How Intelligent is AI, Atomic Clock May Replace GPS System; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Audio book, Champing at the Bit; Science or Fiction

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We first heard about "Champing" about a month ago from an article that we stumbled across online. Basically, it's the idea of camping or glamping inside of historic churches across the United Kingdom. It was an idea that was developed (and trademarked!) by The Churches Conservation Trust - a charity group that's responsible for managing and protecting the historical churches in the UK. We had the please of speaking with Chana James, who's the National PR Officer for the Churches Conservation Trust. She shared her insights on how champing got its start, what it takes to spend the night in a church, and the closest champing opportunity to a pub. Enjoy! To learn more about Champing, or to book a visit - check out their website: http://champing.co.uk For more camping tips, tricks, gear reviews, recipes & more - visit us at http://www.50Campfires.com *Thanks for subscribing & reviewing the 50 Campfires : Daily Outdoor podcast!

It's almost Halloween, and that puts Adam in the spirit (no pun intended) to cook up some puzzles that are creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky, and Kat, Alicia, and Stephanie are ready for the challenge. Zac and Danial snipe some questions from the sidelines, we chat about our close, personal friend Bob DeNiro, and Adam introduces the gang to his old buddy Mike. Puzzles featured in this episode: I) Trick or Treat II) Triskaidekaphobia III) Assisted Anagrams: Clothes Make the Monster IV) Halloween at the Inventory Find more Ouerdplait puzzles at http://www.ouerdplait.com. Thanks to Landon Beall (http://bit.ly/LBmusic) and Nordloef (http://www.nordloef.com) for our music. Subscribe to the show via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ouerdplait/id997648102 Subscribe via RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ouerdplait Or download here: http://archive.org/download/ouerdplait_ep015/ouerdplait_ep015.mp3

Can reading poetry make you a better writer? Grant and Martha discuss how reading poetry improves your prose. Also, how linguists guess where you come from based on how you speak. And what do you call someone who picks the chocolate out of the trail mix? Plus, champing at the bit, rutching around, kerfuffles and kerfluffles, pear-shaped, and little pitchers with big ears!FULL DETAILSCan reading poetry make you a better writer? The way poetry pushes up against the rules of grammar makes it a great teacher even for the writing of standard prose. And while plenty of poems are best comprehended by the wise and mature, hip-hop is a form that's more emotional and less subtle, and over at rapgenius.com, avid followers of hip-hop have annotated lyrics to tell the stories and meanings behind them. Is there a type of poetry that really moves you?Veronica, who grew up in Liverpool, England, has noticed that kerfuffle is a favorite term among American journalists talking about our political situation, though it's much more common across the pond. This word for a disturbance or a bother comes from Scotland, but it's been picked up in the United States, where it's often pronounced as kerfluffle. How do you get rid of the hiccups? Have someone scare you? Hold your breath? We hear thinking of six bald men may just do the trick!When it comes to trail mix, the peanuts may just as well be packing peanuts—all we really want is the chocolate! But if you're one of those people who dig for the M&Ms and leave the rest, you might be accused of high-grading. This term comes from the mining industry in the early 1900s, when gold miners would sneak the good pieces into their lunch pails. What stuff would you admit to high-grading?A while back, our Quiz Guy John Chaneski gave us a game of aptronyms, and your answers are still pouring in. Like, what do you call two guys over a window? How about Kurt n' Rod?For this week's game, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a word puzzle for license plate readers. Might those first three letters stand for a longer word? For example, MMT might be short for mathematics, while MMX could be flummox. The object of this game is to think of the shortest answers possible. Can you think of any with fewer letters?What's the difference between champing at the bit and faunching at the bit? Champing, or chomping, means you're pumped up and ready to go, while faunching—more common in the Southwest—implies more anger and frustration. Which do you use?When adults are talking sex, money, or other adult topics in the presence of children, one might say "little pitchers have big ears," meaning that they don't want the little ones to hear. The expression has to do with beverage pitchers with handles curved like ears. What do you say when you wish you could cover the kids' ears or make them leave the room?High-grading, or stealing choice bits of something, is mentioned a book by David G. Rasmussen called The Man Who Moiled For Gold. Moil itself is an interesting term, meaning "to become wet and muddy from work." It comes from the Latin word mollis, meaning "soft," which is also the source of our word mollify.It's hard to hold a baby when he's rutching around. Rutching, or rutsching, which means slipping, sliding and squirming around comes from German, and is used in areas influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch. What do you call it when infants start wriggling and shimmying all over the place? You might use the phrase pear-shaped to describe someone who's wide in the hips, but to say everything went pear-shaped can also mean that things went wrong. This slang term was among the members of Britain's Royal Air Force during the Falkland Islands War, referring to the fact that when planes would crash, they'd crunch into the shape of a pear. Martha's enthusiastic about the book Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry, edited by former Poet Laureate Billy Collins. One gem in there by Robley Wilson called "I Wish in the City of Your Heart" provides a lovely image of that moment when the rain stops and the rutching kids can run outside.Despite the reach of television and pop culture, American English is growing ever more diverse in terms of dialect. Grant shows how it's possible to pinpoint your region of origin--or at least come close--based on the way you pronounce the word bag. Of course, whether you call a carbonated beverage soda, pop or Coke also depends on what part of the country you're from. Same with sofa, couch or davenport. Although we still tend to pick up faddish words from other regions, local dialects continue to thrive, and there are plenty of quizzes out there to prove it. Linguist Bert Vaux's American Dialect Survey includes helpful maps based on the answers that speakers in the United States give to 122 questions about regional words and phrases.Nowadays we think of the gridiron as the football field, but in the 14th century, a gridiron was a cooking instrument with horizontal bars placed over an open flame. Since then, gridiron has lent its name to a Medieval torture device, the American flag, and it's even the source of the terms grid and gridlock.Why do people up and quit? Can't they just…quit? In the 1300s, the phrase up and followed by an action literally meant you got up and did something. Today, it's taken the figurative meaning of doing something with vigor and enthusiasm, and it's often used with speaking verbs. When's the last time you up and did something?When you hear that little pitchers have big ears, do you think of a lemonade pitcher or a baseball pitcher? In The Wisdom of Many: Essays On The Proverb, Wolfgang Mieder points out that a lot of people think it refers to a Little League pitcher with big ears sticking out of their baseball cap, though it's really about a drink pitcher. Still, that's no excuse for yelling nasty things at Little League games! Has ain't gone out of fashion? Teachers have succeeded in stigmatizing the word, and it's also not such a common pet peeve any more. But the biggest reason you don't hear it as much is because it's no longer used in fiction and movies. Nowadays, it's more common to hear ain't used in certain idioms, like say it ain't so. Let us know if you're still hearing it, or if you've taken it upon yourself to preserve the word.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, celebrating 35 years of making a leadership difference with Situational Leadership II, the leadership model designed to boost effectiveness, impact, and employee engagement. More about how Blanchard can help your executives and organizational leaders at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2014, Wayword LLC.

Can reading poetry make you a better writer? Grant and Martha discuss how reading poetry improves your prose. Also, how linguists guess where you come from based on how you speak. And what do you call someone who picks the chocolate out of the trail mix? Plus, champing at the bit, rutching around, kerfuffles and kerfluffles, pear-shaped, and little pitchers with big ears!FULL DETAILSCan reading poetry make you a better writer? The way poetry pushes up against the rules of grammar makes it a great teacher even for the writing of standard prose. And while plenty of poems are best comprehended by the wise and mature, hip-hop is a form that's more emotional and less subtle, and over at rapgenius.com, avid followers of hip-hop have annotated lyrics to tell the stories and meanings behind them. Is there a type of poetry that really moves you?Veronica, who grew up in Liverpool, England, has noticed that kerfuffle is a favorite term among American journalists talking about our political situation, though it's much more common across the pond. This word for a disturbance or a bother comes from Scotland, but it's been picked up in the United States, where it's often pronounced as kerfluffle. How do you get rid of the hiccups? Have someone scare you? Hold your breath? We hear thinking of six bald men may just do the trick!When it comes to trail mix, the peanuts may just as well be packing peanuts—all we really want is the chocolate! But if you're one of those people who dig for the M&Ms and leave the rest, you might be accused of high-grading. This term comes from the mining industry in the early 1900s, when gold miners would sneak the good pieces into their lunch pails. What stuff would you admit to high-grading?A while back, our Quiz Guy John Chaneski gave us a game of aptronyms, and your answers are still pouring in. Like, what do you call two guys over a window? How about Kurt n' Rod?For this week's game, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a word puzzle for license plate readers. Might those first three letters stand for a longer word? For example, MMT might be short for mathematics, while MMX could be flummox. The object of this game is to think of the shortest answers possible. Can you think of any with fewer letters?What's the difference between champing at the bit and faunching at the bit? Champing, or chomping, means you're pumped up and ready to go, while faunching—more common in the Southwest—implies more anger and frustration. Which do you use?When adults are talking sex, money, or other adult topics in the presence of children, one might say "little pitchers have big ears," meaning that they don't want the little ones to hear. The expression has to do with beverage pitchers with handles curved like ears. What do you say when you wish you could cover the kids' ears or make them leave the room?High-grading, or stealing choice bits of something, is mentioned a book by David G. Rasmussen called The Man Who Moiled For Gold. Moil itself is an interesting term, meaning "to become wet and muddy from work." It comes from the Latin word mollis, meaning "soft," which is also the source of our word mollify.It's hard to hold a baby when he's rutching around. Rutching, or rutsching, which means slipping, sliding and squirming around comes from German, and is used in areas influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch. What do you call it when infants start wriggling and shimmying all over the place? You might use the phrase pear-shaped to describe someone who's wide in the hips, but to say everything went pear-shaped can also mean that things went wrong. This slang term was among the members of Britain's Royal Air Force during the Falkland Islands War, referring to the fact that when planes would crash, they'd crunch into the shape of a pear. Martha's enthusiastic about the book Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry, edited by former Poet Laureate Billy Collins. One gem in there by Robley Wilson called "I Wish in the City of Your Heart" provides a lovely image of that moment when the rain stops and the rutching kids can run outside.Despite the reach of television and pop culture, American English is growing ever more diverse in terms of dialect. Grant shows how it's possible to pinpoint your region of origin--or at least come close--based on the way you pronounce the word bag. Of course, whether you call a carbonated beverage soda, pop or Coke also depends on what part of the country you're from. Same with sofa, couch or davenport. Although we still tend to pick up faddish words from other regions, local dialects continue to thrive, and there are plenty of quizzes out there to prove it. Linguist Bert Vaux's American Dialect Survey includes helpful maps based on the answers that speakers in the United States give to 122 questions about regional words and phrases.Nowadays we think of the gridiron as the football field, but in the 14th century, a gridiron was a cooking instrument with horizontal bars placed over an open flame. Since then, gridiron has lent its name to a Medieval torture device, the American flag, and it's even the source of the terms grid and gridlock.Why do people up and quit? Can't they just…quit? In the 1300s, the phrase up and followed by an action literally meant you got up and did something. Today, it's taken the figurative meaning of doing something with vigor and enthusiasm, and it's often used with speaking verbs. When's the last time you up and did something?When you hear that little pitchers have big ears, do you think of a lemonade pitcher or a baseball pitcher? In The Wisdom of Many: Essays On The Proverb, Wolfgang Mieder points out that a lot of people think it refers to a Little League pitcher with big ears sticking out of their baseball cap, though it's really about a drink pitcher. Still, that's no excuse for yelling nasty things at Little League games! Has ain't gone out of fashion? Teachers have succeeded in stigmatizing the word, and it's also not such a common pet peeve any more. But the biggest reason you don't hear it as much is because it's no longer used in fiction and movies. Nowadays, it's more common to hear ain't used in certain idioms, like say it ain't so. Let us know if you're still hearing it, or if you've taken it upon yourself to preserve the word.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2013, Wayword LLC.

Can reading poetry make you a better writer? Grant and Martha discuss how reading poetry improves your prose. Also, how linguists guess where you come from based on how you speak. And what do you call someone who picks the chocolate out of the trail mix? Plus, champing at the bit, rutching around, kerfuffles and kerfluffles, pear-shaped, and little pitchers with big ears!FULL DETAILSCan reading poetry make you a better writer? The way poetry pushes up against the rules of grammar makes it a great teacher even for the writing of standard prose. And while plenty of poems are best comprehended by the wise and mature, hip-hop is a form that's more emotional and less subtle, and over at rapgenius.com, avid followers of hip-hop have annotated lyrics to tell the stories and meanings behind them. Is there a type of poetry that really moves you?Veronica, who grew up in Liverpool, England, has noticed that kerfuffle is a favorite term among American journalists talking about our political situation, though it's much more common across the pond. This word for a disturbance or a bother comes from Scotland, but it's been picked up in the United States, where it's often pronounced as kerfluffle. How do you get rid of the hiccups? Have someone scare you? Hold your breath? We hear thinking of six bald men may just do the trick!When it comes to trail mix, the peanuts may just as well be packing peanuts—all we really want is the chocolate! But if you're one of those people who dig for the M&Ms and leave the rest, you might be accused of high-grading. This term comes from the mining industry in the early 1900s, when gold miners would sneak the good pieces into their lunch pails. What stuff would you admit to high-grading?A while back, our Quiz Guy John Chaneski gave us a game of aptronyms, and your answers are still pouring in. Like, what do you call two guys over a window? How about Kurt n' Rod?For this week's game, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a word puzzle for license plate readers. Might those first three letters stand for a longer word? For example, MMT might be short for mathematics, while MMX could be flummox. The object of this game is to think of the shortest answers possible. Can you think of any with fewer letters?What's the difference between champing at the bit and faunching at the bit? Champing, or chomping, means you're pumped up and ready to go, while faunching—more common in the Southwest—implies more anger and frustration. Which do you use?When adults are talking sex, money, or other adult topics in the presence of children, one might say "little pitchers have big ears," meaning that they don't want the little ones to hear. The expression has to do with beverage pitchers with handles curved like ears. What do you say when you wish you could cover the kids' ears or make them leave the room?High-grading, or stealing choice bits of something, is mentioned a book by David G. Rasmussen called The Man Who Moiled For Gold. Moil itself is an interesting term, meaning "to become wet and muddy from work." It comes from the Latin word mollis, meaning "soft," which is also the source of our word mollify.It's hard to hold a baby when he's rutching around. Rutching, or rutsching, which means slipping, sliding and squirming around comes from German, and is used in areas influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch. What do you call it when infants start wriggling and shimmying all over the place? You might use the phrase pear-shaped to describe someone who's wide in the hips, but to say everything went pear-shaped can also mean that things went wrong. This slang term was among the members of Britain's Royal Air Force during the Falkland Islands War, referring to the fact that when planes would crash, they'd crunch into the shape of a pear. Martha's enthusiastic about the book Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry, edited by former Poet Laureate Billy Collins. One gem in there by Robley Wilson called "I Wish in the City of Your Heart" provides a lovely image of that moment when the rain stops and the rutching kids can run outside.Despite the reach of television and pop culture, American English is growing ever more diverse in terms of dialect. Grant shows how it's possible to pinpoint your region of origin--or at least come close--based on the way you pronounce the word bag. Of course, whether you call a carbonated beverage soda, pop or Coke also depends on what part of the country you're from. Same with sofa, couch or davenport. Although we still tend to pick up faddish words from other regions, local dialects continue to thrive, and there are plenty of quizzes out there to prove it. Linguist Bert Vaux's American Dialect Survey includes helpful maps based on the answers that speakers in the United States give to 122 questions about regional words and phrases.Nowadays we think of the gridiron as the football field, but in the 14th century, a gridiron was a cooking instrument with horizontal bars placed over an open flame. Since then, gridiron has lent its name to a Medieval torture device, the American flag, and it's even the source of the terms grid and gridlock.Why do people up and quit? Can't they just…quit? In the 1300s, the phrase up and followed by an action literally meant you got up and did something. Today, it's taken the figurative meaning of doing something with vigor and enthusiasm, and it's often used with speaking verbs. When's the last time you up and did something?When you hear that little pitchers have big ears, do you think of a lemonade pitcher or a baseball pitcher? In The Wisdom of Many: Essays On The Proverb, Wolfgang Mieder points out that a lot of people think it refers to a Little League pitcher with big ears sticking out of their baseball cap, though it's really about a drink pitcher. Still, that's no excuse for yelling nasty things at Little League games! Has ain't gone out of fashion? Teachers have succeeded in stigmatizing the word, and it's also not such a common pet peeve any more. But the biggest reason you don't hear it as much is because it's no longer used in fiction and movies. Nowadays, it's more common to hear ain't used in certain idioms, like say it ain't so. Let us know if you're still hearing it, or if you've taken it upon yourself to preserve the word.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.And from The Ken Blanchard Companies, whose purpose is to make a leadership difference among executives, managers, and individuals in organizations everywhere. More about Ken Blanchard's leadership training programs at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2012, Wayword LLC.

[This episode first aired January 15, 2010.]This week on "A Way with Words," Martha and Grant talk about phrases you love to hate, like "Do you mind if I put you on hold?" They also talk about "mountweazels," "jakey bums," "picklebacks," and "step-ins." And which is the proper term: mothers-in-law or mother-in-laws?Some words and phrases you just love to hate: "Your call is important to us." "Do I mind if I put you on hold?" And how about those annoying mid-dinner announcements like "This is a courtesy call"? Martha and Grant talk about some of those phrases and why they make us cringe.Is it "rearing to go" or "raring to go"? "Champing at the bit" or "chomping at the bit"?Which is correct: "mothers-in-law" or "mother-in-laws"?A listener from Clifton Park, New York, says her grandfather was a police officer who used the term "jakey bum" to refer to undesirable characters.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a word puzzle called "Novel Novels," in which he gives clues to the names of novels similar to familiar ones, except for one letter. Try this one: "This offbeat novel is based on an incident concerning a nudist club and an official at a nearby university." Stumped? Think Norman Mailer's novel with all the "fugs" in it.A Woodbridge, Connecticut, caller tells the story of coming across the following definition for "jungftak" in Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (1943): "n. A Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enable[d] to fly, -- each, when alone, had to remain on the ground." For years, he wondered whether such a bird actually exists. Grant explains that this type of dictionary entry is what lexicographers call a "mountweazel" -- a fake definition used to catch copyright infringers who would take a dictionary's content and publish it as their own. A Charlottesville, Virginia, woman says her husband, a New Yorker, makes fun of her for using the expression "might could," as in, "We might could go to dinner later." The hosts talk about this and other "double modals." Incidentally,  here's the funny clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kEBlmSX904 Martha mentions featuring Rosemary Clooney and Marlene Dietrich singing "Too Old to Cut the Mustard."You've kept that old gadget in your garage for years now, but you never use it, so you finally throw it out. The very next day, you discover you need it. Shouldn't there be a word for needing something you just threw away? Martha reports that over in the "A Way with Words" discussion forum http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/general-discussion/when-youve-saved-something-for-a-long-time-throw-it-out-and-immediately-need-it-is-there-a-catch-phrase-for-that/?value=premature%20evacuation&type=1&include=1&search=1&ret=all, listeners came up with, among other things, "premature evacuation."This week's "Slang This!" contestant is literary historian Jack Lynch, author of "The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park" http://www.amazon.com/Lexicographers-Dilemma-Evolution-English-Shakespeare/dp/0802717004/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_1. He tries to guess the meaning of three slang terms: "one throat to choke," "pickleback," and "step-ins." By the way, Lynch is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, has published his own helpful guide to grammar and usage http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/.A New Zealander who relocated to Texas wonders why she grew up saying "Mum," but people in the United States say "Mom."Martha offers a tip on how to spell "onomatopoeia." Sort of.The old word "wittol" refers to a man who knows that his wife is having an affair and is okay with it. The behavior still exists today, but almost no one knows the word. A caller in Albany, New York, wonders why. Need a word for the place on your back that you can't reach to scratch? Martha has it for you.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2010, Wayword LLC.