Episode # 28 - Language Laughs and the Sticky Truth

Why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways? Come along as we unravel this puzzling enigma, and many more, with a healthy dose of humor and a sprinkle of historical insight. Prepare for a rollercoaster ride through the lexicon as we ponder why a cake baked in a pan doesn’t magically transform into a pancake, and how shipment and cargo took on their respective transportational forms. If you've ever wondered why glue stubbornly refuses to stick to the inside of its bottle, we’ve got the sticky answers you crave.

Listening to this episode is like discovering the inside jokes of the English language, from parkways to paste-eating clubs. We promise a light-hearted exploration of the oddities of words, with our unique spin on why these phrases are far more than the sum of their parts. So, grab a comfy seat and a curious mind, because we’re about to untangle some of the funniest mysteries that our everyday language has to offer. Whether you’re in it for the fun or the facts, get ready to be entertained and educated in equal measure.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I apologize for the auditory anxiety you may be
experiencing.
My podcast has been describedas listening to a cat trying to
sing a lullaby.
Drumroll, please, episodenumber 28.
And diving into the stupid ofthe internet and I'm pretty sure
I've mentioned this before thequestion why do cars park in a

(00:23):
driveway but drive in a parkway?
My off-the-cuff response isdifferent definitions of park
and drive in those two phrasings, idiots.
But let's do a nice reasonedresponse.
So a driveway is the privateroad leading to a house or

(00:44):
garage.
It's a place where cars driveto park.
A parkway is a broad landscapedroad, often with trees and
grassy areas, maybe even flowers, where it looks like a park.
It's a place where cars drivethrough enjoying the scenery.

(01:05):
So, while they both involvedriving and parking, they serve
different purposes and are usedin different contexts, and
that's it.
That's what it comes down to.
So a lot of flipping wordsaround.
For example, if you bake a cakein a pan, why aren't you baking

(01:30):
a pan into a pancake?
And this next one I don't hatenearly as bad, because who
speaks English and speaks otherlanguages?
That resides in good oldAmerica.
Why is that?

(01:50):
When you transport something bycar, it's called a shipment, but
when you transport something byship, it's called cargo.
Yeah, the difference in termsstems from historical and
practical reasons.
Difference in terms stems fromhistorical and practical reasons
.
The act of shipping that whichis shipped for shipment term
probably originated from theidea of sending or dispatching

(02:13):
goods, especially when usingland-based transportations like
carts or wagons, so well beforecars.
Then cargo is thought to bederived from the Italian word
carico, which means load, alsofreight loaded on ship, from the

(02:33):
Spanish cargo Burden and a fewother places Depends, where you
look, specifically associatedwith goods carried by sea,
likely because ships werehistorically used for
transporting large quantities ofgoods over long distances.
So, while both terms refer totransportation of goods,

(02:58):
different historical contexts inwhich they were used led to
their distinct meanings.
And cargo is one word.
If you were to go by car, youwould say it's time for this car
to go.
Two separate words, allah, oh,and I wasn't going to do this

(03:20):
one.
But why doesn't glue stick tothe inside of a bottle?
Well, there's no air inside thebottle of glue, ideally, and
air is part of the chemicalreaction that turns glue from
liquid to solid for adhesion.
Also, the glue wouldn't tasteas good as paste, so why bother

(03:48):
right Paste Eater of the MonthClub.
Yeah, I was never a member.
I couldn't qualify.
My credit wasn't that good inkindergarten.