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cover of episode Wet Brick (Rebroadcast) - 4 May 2015

Wet Brick (Rebroadcast) - 4 May 2015

2015/5/4
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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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What the fox says may be a mystery, but we do know that dogs bark differently around the world. In China, for example, they say not bow-wow but wang wang. Also, the story behind the British tradition of* scrumping*. It’s not a middle school dance craze, and it has nothing to do with beer — or does it? Plus, recipe vs. receipt, mash vs. press, housing a beer, all bollixed up, and “empty heads make weary bones.”

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