2025-02-17
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.
And Grant, I bet you've been up to the same thing I have been up to,
which is perusing seed catalogs and dreaming of this year's garden.
Uh, yep.
It's like the adult version of the Sears catalogs that you looked at at Christmas time when you were a kid.
Isn't that the truth?
They're so beautiful.
All these lovely plants and flowers and, uh, it's just delightful.
Well, yeah, the images, but of course, also the language is what's catching my eye.
You know, some of those names are just, I mean,
why would they be naming fruits and vegetables,
things like diplomat or albion or seascape, you know?
I mean, they're sort of like paint chips or something.
There's a sequence of three that I saw.
It's Devino, Sabeto, Oroc.
They're like some characters from the new, you know, the new Star Trek series.
Oh, I was thinking a law firm or something.
I've had some fun fooling around with those names and just putting them together,