An excellent podcast: Word of Mouth (BBC Radio 4). It’s the best podcast on language I’ve heard — smart, witty, respectful of its listener’s intelligence and time. A new series starts in September.
[Has the BBC ever made a bad podcast? I’m also a fan of Soul Music.]
Monday, August 13, 2018
From the BBC: Word of Mouth
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From the episode page "Shop Names":
ReplyDelete"...florist called Back to the Fuchsia, anyone?"
I once saw a landscaper's van with the business name: "Lawn Order".
A pet shop: Fish and Cheeps. An Italian restaurant: The Great Impasta. Both real. I think there was a golden (?) age of businesses with puns for names.
ReplyDeleteThat episode is illuminating about medieval shop names. Who knew?
There was a Chinese restaurant in Oakville, Ontario that I travelled past many times and it wasn’t until I said the name aloud that I clued in: “Ho Lee Chow"
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