2024-10-21
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
Grant, you'll remember our conversation with Dana in Reno, Nevada,
who wanted a word for that moment when you're playing cards or a board game and you draw what would have been the perfect card or tile for the previous turn.
Oh, yeah, a little too late, but she wanted something she could shout in anger.
Yeah, yeah.
And so, of course, our listeners stepped up.
We heard from Linda Gamble-Hoyer from Nellieford, Virginia.
who said, my idea for that term is tardy tile.
In a card game, you'd call it a tardy card,
and she says it should be delivered explosively to vent your frustration.
TARDY CARD!
I like that one.
I like that one.
Chris Moore in Kerry, Illinois says he calls it a squander.
His whole family calls it a squander.
Oh, that's a squander.
That was a total squander.
Yeah, I like that word, squander.