Podcasts about Frindle

Send us a Text Message.This week, we present a back to school special with Andrew Clements. Clements was a teacher-turned-author who wrote dozens of books that helped children foster a love of learning. Known for Frindle, The Landry News, The School Story, and other texts, Clements' characters helped encourage young readers to believe in themselves and dare to bring their dreams to life. We salute all the amazing educators out there about to start their new years! Your students are so lucky to have you! 

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: sweet acts of service and manifesting wintry feelings Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: themed reading months and how we incorporate them into our reading lives The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  3:00 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 3:18 - Krampus by Brom 3:39 - Slewfoot by Brom 7:09 - Cozy by Jan Brett 7:16 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand 8:08 - Current Reads 8:42 - Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor (Meredith) 10:06 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 14:20 - The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern 14:45 - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (Kaytee) 20:00 - Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Meredith) 21:07 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir 24:45 - Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (Kaytee) 28:25 - Cold People by Tom Rob Smith (Meredith) 29:31 - From the Front Porch podcast 32:53 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 34:10 - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach (Kaytee) 37:05 - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach 37:21 - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 37:49 - Deep Dive: Themed Reading Months 47:39 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill 48:09 - Frindle by Andrew Clements 48:28 - The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz 48:51 - Our Zazzle storefront for all things CR merch 49:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain 49:54 - I wish everybody would compile a list of their favorite books of the year. (Meredith) 52:08 - I wish to press Marley by Jon Clinch this holiday season. (Kaytee) 52:14 - Marley by Jon Clinch Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. December's IPL will be a yearly recap from us, so we can give our beloved Indies a break for the holidays! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

For the first time in Into the Pensieve history, Alice and Martha discuss a book they may not still love as adults, Frindle by Andrew Clements. In this series, Alice and Martha reminisce on shared memories, inside jokes, and experiences reading both classic and lesser-known children's books, including favorite segments such as Quora Question of the Week and Sorting Hat! Take Fives and character studies will continue, with this new episode format being added to the rotation with the other two formats. Please consider supporting us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/realweirdsisters New episodes are released every Monday and special topics shows are released periodically. Don't forget to subscribe to our show to make sure you never miss an episode!

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Unit 3-3 Frindle 筆為什麼叫筆？字典為什麼叫字典呢？其實都是我們賦予這些文字意義。這次的 4 月故事館，Nick 從調皮搗蛋的學生，到靈機一動發明了「Frindle」，而引起了全國轟動，甚至登上了雜誌。想知道更多關於他以及 Frindle 的故事嗎？趕快跟著我們一起來閱讀這次的故事吧！

Unit 3-2 Frindle 筆為什麼叫筆？字典為什麼叫字典呢？其實都是我們賦予這些文字意義。這次的 4 月故事館，Nick 從調皮搗蛋的學生，到靈機一動發明了「Frindle」，而引起了全國轟動，甚至登上了雜誌。想知道更多關於他以及 Frindle 的故事嗎？趕快跟著我們一起來閱讀這次的故事吧！

Unit 3-1 Frindle 筆為什麼叫筆？字典為什麼叫字典呢？其實都是我們賦予這些文字意義。這次的 4 月故事館，Nick 從調皮搗蛋的學生，到靈機一動發明了「Frindle」，而引起了全國轟動，甚至登上了雜誌。想知道更多關於他以及 Frindle 的故事嗎？趕快跟著我們一起來閱讀這次的故事吧！

In this hip and happening episode of Wildcat Minute, Chandra and Tyler discuss Minute 12 of High School Musical 2. Topics discussed include a boy named Charles, a dog named Boi, and a grown man using breath-freshener named Fulton. For our DCOM segment, Chandra and Tyler try to turn the Andrew Clements novel Frindle into a scary story. Wildcat Minute is a production of the Amateur Nerds. Rate, review, subscribe, tell your friends! Follow us on Twitter @amateurnerds Email us amateurnerdspresent@gmail.com Logo by @tgoldenart Music by Joe Winslow

Cozy season is here, which means Lauren and Jeanette are ready to cozy up to some of their favorite books. In this episode, they discuss some grade school books that made them the readers they are today. Books discussed this episode include, the American Girl Doll Series, Amelia's Notebook Series by Marissa Moss, Babysitters club by Ann M Martin, Frindle by Andrew Clements, Scary Stories You Tell In the Dark Trilogy by Alvin Schwartz, and the Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osborne.

Ring of Fire Episode 5! This week Emmy and Alex discuss inclusive language in birthmark, a topic that is debated often in our community. We talk about how we've incorporated it into our speech, how we feel when people are so against using inclusive language and more! Digressions include: The book Frindle(?), bisexuality, ghostbusters, and modern American christianity. Leave a comment or send us an email if you have thoughts on this topic! And if you're a birthworker and interested in being a guest on the pod send us an email! The training that Alex and Emmy mention in this ep: https://www.badoulatrainings.org/ Gender affirming birth work training from Moss the doula: https://www.instagram.com/mossthedoula/ Join us live every Friday, 7pm MST on twitch to be a part of the conversation as we are having it! Email: ringoffirepodcast@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ringoffirepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirepodcast Meet Alex: https://www.alexbarrdoula.com/ Meet Emmy: https://birthwizard.com/

Ring of Fire Episode 5! This week Emmy and Alex discuss inclusive language in birthmark, a topic that is debated often in our community. We talk about how we've incorporated it into our speech, how we feel when people are so against using inclusive language and more! Digressions include: The book Frindle(?), bisexuality, ghostbusters, and modern American christianity. Leave a comment or send us an email if you have thoughts on this topic! And if you're a birthworker and interested in being a guest on the pod send us an email! The training that Alex and Emmy mention in this ep: https://www.badoulatrainings.org/ Gender affirming birth work training from Moss the doula: https://www.instagram.com/mossthedoula/ Join us live every Friday, 7pm MST on twitch to be a part of the conversation as we are having it! Email: ringoffirepodcast@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ringoffirepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirepodcast Meet Alex: https://www.alexbarrdoula.com/ Meet Emmy: https://birthwizard.com/

Learn fun facts about your hosts Annie and Hajin! Investigating Zac Efron's claims of veganism Did you know Hajin took 2 years of Latin in High School?! All play and no work Frindle by Andrew Clements Nickname used by Trump or slang term for cannabis? Depths of Wikipedia gets deep Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email hey@depthsof.com Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo Produced by Seth Gliksman Music by Kyle Imperatore

I revisit Frindle and get totally sidetracked by memes, how in-jokes develop both on and off the internet, and the academic study of folklore. Also discussed: villains versus antagonists, descriptivist versus prescriptivist grammar, and kids changing the world.   Follow on Instagram @playground.books Listen on YouTube at Playground Books Podcast

This episode follows 5th grader Nick Allen's quest to rename the humble pen.

On Episode 137, Frindle by Andrew Clements takes the stage! Frindle chronicles the adventures of a fifth-grader named Nick Allen who turns his community upside down when he decides to start using the word “frindle” to describe pens. On this episode, Alli shares why this book is so close to her heart and talks with her guests about troublemakers, cultural differences in the classroom, double standards, strict teachers, the power of a villain, and more. Daman and Khyati are the hosts of Brown Girls Read. On every episode, they discuss the books they're reading, as well as their culture. Follow them on Instagram (@browngirlsreadpod | @browngirlshappyhour).

we finish frindle. that's it. that's the podcast. bm&w proudly present a mediocre podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bmwpodcast/support

today we read frindle. that's it. that's the podcast. bm&w proudly present a mediocre podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bmwpodcast/support

Can homeschooling really be "easy peasy"? Lee Giles, creator of Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschooling joins the show today to discuss how she went about creating a free curriculum for people to use to teach their children. We also have a book report by Isaac on his most recent read, Frindle, as well as a fantastic story by Alexander and Ezekiel called The Breakout At The Zoo. Website: www.AllInOneHomeschool.com Featured Photo by Alexander Ross on Unsplash www.HomeschooledByDad.com

Enjoy our presentation of Frindle by Andrew Clements and published by Simon & Schuster.  Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word he invented. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.Frindle is a multi-award winning novel and has been a bestseller for several years.Frindle is recommended for ages 9 and up. Please see Common Sense Media for more information and reviews. http://bit.ly/Frindle_ReviewsThis title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive. Libby eBook - http://bit.ly/Frindle_LibbyEbookPlease visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information.Music: Dub the Uke (excerpt) by Kara Square (c) copyright 2016. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/53340

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Filip Rakowski, co-founder and CTO of Vue Storefront. They discuss how Filip got into programming, frontend development for eCommerce, and what led to the development of Vue Storefront. They also discuss what's coming in Vue Storefront Next, and Filip's experience with the Composition API. Filip also discusses launching open source projects early, and how he build a community around Vue Storefront. Panel Lindsay Wardell Guest Filip Rakowski Vue Remote Conf 2020 Links What is Vue Storefront Next? Picks Filip Rakowski: Follow Filip on Twitter > @filrakowski REWORK — the New York Times bestselling book about business. | Basecamp It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work | Basecamp Lindsay Wardell: Follow Lindsay on Twitter > @Yagaboosh Vuex ORM Axios Frindle by Andrew Clements Follow Views on Vue on Twitter > @viewsonvue

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Filip Rakowski, co-founder and CTO of Vue Storefront. They discuss how Filip got into programming, frontend development for eCommerce, and what led to the development of Vue Storefront. They also discuss what's coming in Vue Storefront Next, and Filip's experience with the Composition API. Filip also discusses launching open source projects early, and how he build a community around Vue Storefront. Panel Lindsay Wardell Guest Filip Rakowski Vue Remote Conf 2020 Links What is Vue Storefront Next? Picks Filip Rakowski: Follow Filip on Twitter > @filrakowski REWORK — the New York Times bestselling book about business. | Basecamp It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work | Basecamp Lindsay Wardell: Follow Lindsay on Twitter > @Yagaboosh Vuex ORM Axios Frindle by Andrew Clements Follow Views on Vue on Twitter > @viewsonvue

Kaytee and Meredith are back and chatting about all the books this week. We’ve got surgery updates and silliness and everything in between. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each host. We’re virtually joining in on a trip to a local booklover’s heaven, and sitting on the couch binging books together. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. Romance, and mystery, non-fiction, and YA. We’re chatting about all that we’ve been reading lately, even if it doesn’t jive with previous opinions on the show! Our Slow But Steady check in is going to move to every once in a while instead of every week. You can still check in on Instagram or Facebook, but this is an “off” week for this segment. For our deep dive this week, we are excited to talk about what makes us skip or DNF (do not finish) a book. Some of these might be obvious to long-time listeners of the show, but some surprised us as well as each other, so let us know what you think and what you discover about your OWN reading tendencies here. We are SO interested to hear it! Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: first, a small “bonus press” to add some hilarity to your December, and then a tribute to a recently deceased author, and something to press into the young adults’ hands in your life. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . Bookish Moments: 2:03 - BookPeople in Austin, TX Current Reads: 8:54 - A Knife at the Opera by Susannah Stacey 10:15 - Agatha Christie books 11:01 - Dorothy Simpson books 11:32 - Episode 8 of Season 2 with Anne Bogel 11:34 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams 15:34 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare 15:58 - Do You Mind if I Cancel? by Gary Janetti 17:45 - David Sedaris books 17:27 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff 19:12 - Fair Play by Eve Rodsky 19:20 - Episode 14 of Season 2 with Lori Lynn Tucker 23:12 - American Royals by Katherine McGee 29:08 - Underground Airlines by Ben Winters 29:43 - Dear Martin by Nic Stone 30:49 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Deep Dive: 35:24 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 35:29 - Doris Kearns Goodwin books 42:52 - Episode 7 of Season 1 with Jessica Turner 42:57 - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Presses: 45:20 - Santaland Diaries Audio from NPR 46:24 - Lunch Money by Andrew Clements 48:15 - Frindle by Andrew Clements 48:16 - Troublemaker by Andrew Clements 48:58 - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Author Andrew Clements talks about his path from teacher to writer, and takes us behind the scenes of his books THE LOSERS CLUB and FRINDLE.

Headed out on the road as a family? We’re rounding up our favorite audiobooks for family listening in Episode 2 of Kidliterate. Join us! Audible Libby Hoopla Ramona Quimby series The Phantom Tollbooth Andrew Clements books: Frindle, No Talking, Lunch Money Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (and subsequent books) Mary Poppins The Library Book … Continue reading "Audiobooks For Road Trips"

Travel with kidsWe explore the ups and downs of life on the road, including what helps us get through long car rides and flights, travel horror stories, and what we love most about traveling as a family. Links we mentioned:Audiobooks, including Frindle by Andrew ClementsSparkle Stories, especially the Martin and Sylvia onesHooplaPlayaways from the libraryLife latelyWe share about our recent trip to Colorado for a friend's wedding, including an incredible surprise the groom had for his new wife.Reading latelyAbby read The Birth House by Ami McKay, which fed her desire to read about birth and midwifery.Sarah shares a book she read earlier in the year, Flat: Reclaiming My Body From Breast Cancer by Catherine Guthrie.Eating latelySarah loves snacking on Trader Joe's marcona truffle almonds.Abby recommends beergaritas as a great happy hour option.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, I am reviewing Frindle by Andrew Clements.

Episode 1 (March 21) Annabelle shares her thoughts about the chapter book Frindle, by Andrew Clements. Listen to find out more!

Boomer versus Millennial. Rotary phones versus sexting. Sitcom jokes versus nonsense memes. Woman who thinks she's always right versus the devil boy she created in her own image. Yep, it's a generational battle here on New Rankings, as Teddy and his mother Cheri put the participation trophies aside and debate the top seven things Millennials and Baby Boomers can learn from each other. Vote for your champion, #TeamTeddy or #TeamCheri, and reach out to @newrankings with your own hot takes on Jeff Bezos' world takeover, Frindle, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and hunky Monkee Davy Jones.

Frindle by Andrew Clements is all about the dictionary, a pen, and those troublemaking Fifth Graders. Otherwise known as what we deal with everyday in Middle School. Listen as we discuss whether Nick Allen deserves detention, whether Merriam Webster was wrong about the bubblegum, and determine the etymology of "fleek." Word up.

Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....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! 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Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for AWWW comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, who mission since 1979 has been to unleash the power and potential of people and organizations everywhere.  More about Ken Blanchard's leadership development solutions at kenblanchard.com/leadership.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! 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Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for AWWW comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, who mission since 1979 has been to unleash the power and potential of people and organizations everywhere.  More about Ken Blanchard's leadership development solutions at kenblanchard.com/leadership.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 2012, Wayword LLC.