Why do auctioneers talk so fast? Martha and Grant discuss the <b>rapid-fire speech of auctioneers</b>, and how it gets you to bid higher. Also, why so many books have <b>ridiculously long titles</b>, where you'd have <b>sonker</b> for dessert, and an appreciation of that children's classic, "<b>The Phantom Tollbooth</b>." Plus, <b>"different from" vs. "different than,"</b> the origin of <b>suss out</b>, words that apparently entered <b>English in 1937</b>, and the many names for those <b>little gray bugs</b> that roll up into a ball. <a href="http://www.waywordradio.org/auctioneers">See the full show notes at <i>A Way with Words</i></a>.
