Games and Wordplay: Barbara Shepherd and Dave Shepherd explore word games, games with words, and ways of playing with words.
Dave thanks Brad and Naoko for donations, and Naoko, Ralsen, Asa, Jason and Hossein for their emails. (1:59)
This show was inspired by a game published by Brad Chase, Orijinz. We play a couple of rounds. (Thanks, Brad!) (6:51)
Music bumper from “Bongo Booty” by Vincent Van GoGo. (12:09)
Some of our favorite games for word nerds young and old (12:47)
- Scrabble
- Boggle
- Taboo
- Scattergories
- Tribond
Some good sources for online word games: East of the Web, Word Plays, and good old Yahoo (21:29)
Song: “The Mating Game” by Bitter:Sweet (22:37)
Rude Word of the Week: “nucking futs” and other rude Spoonerisms (25:57)
Music bumper from “Tonight” by Zach Ashton. (29:39)
Spoonerisms as wordplay, including a very rude running skit from RTL Samstag Nacht Live based on a Spoonerism (30:07)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network and Ioda Promonet
Theme music by Kick the Cat
Closing music from “Grapes” by Evan Stone
time: 38:59
size: 35.7 Mb
rating: R (Our rude word is a variant of the ever-rude “F-word.” We close with reference to a German television skit that is based totally on the “F-word.”)
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Spoonerisms.
Love them.
genties and ladlemen is my current favorite.
But they are really a subset of puns.
for the best puns ever read spider robinson (especially callahans place novels)
spiderrobinson.com
Live it.
Ryan
Ryan
Loved the Spider Robinson reference. When I heard this podcast I thought immediately of his novel “The Lady Slings the Booze.”
I hope not to seem to be one of those who post multiple times in order to achieve some measure of “Andy Warhol fame”. I was on my way to leave this comment and got sidetracked leaving a quick response for Ryan.
At any rate I must take exception to the definition of “morpheme” as “the minimum unit ‘of sound’ that has any kind of meaning.” That is, of course, the definition of “phoneme”.
Similarly, the definition of “kineme” is “the minimum unit of movement or gesture that has any kind of meaning.”
“Morpheme” must be broad enough to encompass both of these, as well as any other “-emic” structure we may think of.
Another favourite web site of mine providing word games is http://www.freerice.com. It’s not sophisticated – just a mutiple-choice test, but quite addictive, and you support a charity while you play.
I really enjoyed this podcast! Hooray for Scattergories! My husband, friends and I have played that game so much that we began to make random and outrageous rules….I think it’s time to take up the idea I heard on this podcast and make new cards…
Thanks for the podcast!