125: Friends With Words (live with Martha Barnette and friends)

<p><strong>Martha Barnette</strong> is one half of the linguistics podcast <em>A Way With Words</em>, and author of the new book <em>Friends With Words: Adventures in Languageland</em>.</p> <p>Her lifelong love of language has led her through some of the toughest questions lexicography has to offer, and she's answering questions from our live listening audience.</p> <p>Why do we FALL pregnant? How can we use PRETTY to say something is "pretty ugly"? And once and for all, why do we really say "the whole nine yards"?</p> <p>Video for this episode: <a href= "https://youtu.be/aPikLncj2xI">https://youtu.be/aPikLncj2xI</a></p> <p><strong>Timestamps (audio)</strong></p> <p>Start: 0:00<br /> Cold open: 0:27<br /> Intros: 2:02<br /> Chat with Martha about Friends With Words: 5:42<br /> On Martha's life and language: 11:10<br /> Related or Not: 36:27<br /> Questions for Martha: 56:25<br /> The Reads: 1:25:40</p>