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https://www.waywordradio.org/ en Wayword, Inc. All rights reserved. Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, language change and varieties, as roach to fuel economy is stock in trade for the carborexic. That’s a person who is energy anorexic, meaning they do things like never use air-conditioning, turn off their refrigerators when they go a way for the weekend, and fill the few lights they use with low wattage bulbs. And that’s it for our word-of-the-year minicasts. You can find more words of the year at the web site of the American Dialect Society, at americandialect.org. Also, on our web site at waywordradio.org, you can find more minicasts, news about language current events, and full episodes of our call-in show, all at no cost to you.Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:02:00 -0000 full Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine. DWT, gas-sippers, hypermiling, and carborexic. We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008. Last week we talked about words that came from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Gas prices have been all over the place, but worse still than high gas-prices are accidents caused by DWT, which is short for ’driving while texting.’ Legislation and rules were considered in municipalities across the country to stop people from sending text messages on their phones while driving, though few bills seem to have passed. Thanks to high fuel prices, the word gas-sipper made a comeback in 2008. It’s the opposite of a gas-guzzler. If a car sips gas, it consume less. Another approach to conserving fuel would be hypermiling. This word, created in 2004, was Oxford University Press’s word of the year for 2008. It means to take extraordinary measures to conserve fuel, things like turning off the engine when going down hills, avoiding the brakes, and drafting behind larger vehicles. Drafting means riding up close where wind resistance is less. This approach to fuel economy is stock in trade for the carborexic. That’s a person who is energy anorexic, meaning they do things like never use air-conditioning, turn off their refrigerators when they go a way for the weekend, and fill the few lights they use with low wattage bulbs. And that’s it for our word-of-the-year minicasts. You can find more words of the year at the web site of the American Dialect Society, at americandialect.org. Also, on our web site at waywordradio.org, you can find more minicasts, news about language current events, and full episodes of our call-in show, all at no cost to you.Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008. Last week we talked about words that came from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Gas prices have been all over the place, but worse still than high gas-prices are accidents caused by DWT, which is short for ’driving while texting.’ Legislation and rules were considered in municipalities across the country to stop people from sending text messages on their phones while driving, though few bills seem to have passed. Thanks to high fuel prices, the word gas-sipper made a comeback in 2008. It’s the opposite of a gas-guzzler. If a car sips gas, it consume less. Another approach to conserving fuel would be hypermiling. This word, created in 2004, was Oxford University Press’s word of the year for 2008. It means to take extraordinary measures to conserve fuel, things like turning off the engine when going down hills, avoiding the brakes, and drafting behind larger vehicles. Drafting means riding up close where wind resistance is less. This approach to fuel economy is stock in trade for the carborexic. That’s a person who is energy anorexic, meaning they do things like never use air-conditioning, turn off their refrigerators when they go a way for the weekend, and fill the few lights they use with low wattage bulbs. And that’s it for our word-of-the-year minicasts. You can find more words of the year at the web site of the American Dialect Society, at americandialect.org. Also, on our web site at waywordradio.org, you can find more minicasts, news about language current events, and full episodes of our call-in show, all at no cost to you.Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ]] 184 no The Lipstick Express - 15 Dec. 2008 https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awww/081215-AWWW-lipstick-express-minicast.mp3 Hockey mom, mavericky, snow machines, andhow could we forget that other memorable phrase from the 2008 presidential campaign?lipstick on a pig. Some new and not-so-new terms leapt onto the national stage during Gov. Sarah Palin’s run for the vice presidency. Grant discusses these expressions as our ’Word of the Year 2008’ series continues. We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008. Last week we talked about the acronym PUMA. When Sarah Palin took the stage this year as a surprise pick for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, the election changed. Her hugely popular public appearances, her good looks, and her role as a Washington outsider served as catalysts for new words and catchphrases. For example, she described herself as a hockey mom. It’s a decades-old term for someone who spends a great deal of time passionately aiding her children’s interest in the sport that uses a puck and a stick. The only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull, she was fond of saying, is lipstick. So, when Barack Obama said in a speech, ’You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,’ many people assumed he meant to call Palin a pig. The brouhaha about that was called Lipstick-gate by some press and commentators. That’s not the only term that Caribou Barbie, as some people have called her, brought to the fore. Her constant use of the term maverick led writer and actor Tina Fey to use the word mavericky in her Saturday Night Live impressions of Palin. It simply means ’having maverick-like qualities.’ Also, through interviews and background news stories, the other 49 states learned that Alaskans call snowmobiles snow machines, though there’s nothing new about that, and that they often refer to the country beyond Alaska as Outside. That’s all about Sarah Palin-inspired words of the year. Next week we’ll talk about Olympic-related words of the year.You can support this program by making a donation at http://www.waywordradio.org/donate/. Thank you!Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:03:00 -0000 full Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine. Hockey mom, mavericky, snow machines, andhow could we forget that other memorable phrase from the 2008 presidential campaign? Hockey mom, mavericky, snow machines, andhow could we forget that other memorable phrase from the 2008 presidential campaign?lipstick on a pig. Some new and not-so-new terms leapt onto the national stage...