By a Landslide (Full Episode) by A Way with Words published on 2023-03-11T21:27:57Z How do you transform ancient Chinese script for use in the modern age? English uses a keyboard with just 26 letters, but the first Chinese typewriter looked like a small table under a huge disk with more than 4,000 characters. A new book chronicles the innovators who adapted the Chinese writing for use with modern technology. Plus, in poker, why is a pair of aces and a pair of eights known as a dead man's hand? And some people credit Winston Churchill with the phrase Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom. Actually, there's no evidence he ever said that, but a similar bit of advice had been circulated among British royalty for decades. Plus, getting pipped, puzzling over proverbs, vittles vs. victuals, do the messages vs. do the errands, sakura-fabuki, a friendly word for your ex's new sweetie, and the German word that translates as "mouse cinema." http://waywordradio.org Genre Learning