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&lt;p&gt;[This episode first aired February 27, 2010.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#039;s in a pet&#039;s name? Martha and Grant swap stories about how they came up with names for their dogs. Also this week: Have you ever been called a &quot;stump-jumper&quot;? How about a snicklefritz? And what&#039;s the last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you consult, it might be &quot;zythum,&quot; &quot;zyzzyva,&quot; &quot;zyxomma,&quot; or &quot;zyxt.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes the process of naming a pet takes a while. The hosts talk about how their dogs&#039; names evolved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A native Japanese speaker is mystified by the expression &quot;happy as a clam.&quot; In Japanese, she says, if you had a good night&#039;s sleep you might say you &quot;slept like a clam&quot; or &quot;slept like mud.&quot; So why do English speakers think clams are content?&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#039;s the very last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you&#039;re using, you may see &quot;zythum,&quot; &quot;zyzzyva,&quot; &quot;zyxomma,&quot; or &quot;zyxt.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week&#039;s word puzzle from Quiz Guy Greg Pliska involves taking a word, adding an &quot;i&quot; to the beginning, as if creating an Apple product, to get an entirely new word. For instance: &quot;This is how Steve Jobs begins a card game.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A caller from Princeton, Texas, remembers that after a satisfying meal, her late father used to push back from the table and say, &quot;I am sufficiently suffonsified. Anything more would be purely obnoxious to my taste. No thank you.&quot; What heck did he mean by that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Vermonter says he&#039;s sometimes called a &quot;stump-jumper.&quot; Should he be flattered or insulted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha shares a couple of &quot;Tom Swifties,&quot; those funny sentences that make great punny use of adverbs, like &quot;&#039;My bicycle wheel is damaged,&#039; Tom said outspokenly.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we say that someone who&#039;s happy is in &quot;hog heaven&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha tells the story behind the term &quot;Tom Swifty.&quot; Grant shares some more funny examples from the &quot;A Way with Words&quot; discussion forum http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/episodes-1/a-whole-nother-full-episode/.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Gradoo&quot; is a word for something undesirable, the kind of thing you&#039;d rather scrape off your shoe. A man who grew up in Louisiana wonders about the term, which he heard from both English and Cajun French speakers.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone who says, &quot;I&#039;ll be there directly,&quot; may not necessarily get there right away. How did the meaning of &quot;directly&quot; change in some parts of the country to mean &quot;by and by&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You little &#039;snickelfritz&#039;!&quot; An Indiana man says his mother used to call him that when she meant &quot;You little rascal!&quot; Although the term&#039;s meaning has changed over time, its original meaning was a bit naughty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Way with Words is supported by its listeners. Drop a few bucks in the guitar case: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email: words@waywordradio.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone:&lt;br /&gt;United States an Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673&lt;br /&gt;London +44 20 7193 2113&lt;br /&gt;Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Site: http://waywordradio.org/&lt;br /&gt;Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate/&lt;br /&gt;Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/&lt;br /&gt;Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/&lt;br /&gt;Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/&lt;br /&gt;Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/&lt;br /&gt;Skype: skype://waywordradio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 2010, Wayword Inc.&lt;/p&gt;
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