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cover of episode Hidden Treasures (Rebroadcast) - 28 October 2019

Hidden Treasures (Rebroadcast) - 28 October 2019

2019/10/28
logo of podcast A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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A new online archive of Civil War letters offers a vivid portrait of the everyday lives of enlisted men. These soldiers lacked formal education so they wrote and spelled by ear. The letters show us how ordinary people spoke then. • Is there a single word that means the opposite of prejudiceUnhate? Or maybe allophilia? • There’s an old joke that if you buy clothes at a flea market, they throw in the fleas for free. But the story behind the term flea market is a lot more complicated. • Also: go to grassgo up the spouttake the devil out of itbobbery, and diabetes of the blow-hole.

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