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Weekend Variety Wireless - Hour 2 - 25/08/18

Aug 25, 201846 min
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Episode description

First we are at the movies with James Croot. Then, Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over words, their origin and meaning. First up Max takes a look at the real origin of Rugby. Then he asks the question have you ever said pretty ugly and thought about what you were saying? Has jewellery any connection to Jew? Max also looks at getting shirty and the phrase warts-and-all.Finally max explores what a creed is and where it comes from. If you are interested in the origin of a word or phrase, e-mail your wordy questions to Graeme and hell forward them to Max.
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