Flyaway and Catio

You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette.

And I’m Grant Barrett. It’s time for another update on some new words that I’ve found.

Yay!

Or old words that I’ve found.

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Let me ask you, do you have a catio in your house?

Do I have a catio?

Well, you have dogs and no cat, right?

Oh, is that a patio for the cat?

Exactly! A catio is a patio for the cat. It’s kind of enclosed, they can’t get away, but they can still see the sky and the trees.

Oh!

A catio.

Oh, very nice.

It’s our sweet little word, right?

What about a flyaway?

A flyaway?

Do you follow Formula One racing?

No.

A flyaway is kind of like a sleepaway for cars.

What?

That means that Formula One races usually happen in Europe, but sometimes they’ll play Asia.

So the whole shebang, the whole show, the whole shooting match goes to Asia, and they have a Formula One race there.

It’s called a flyaway.

The race itself is the flyaway because everybody goes to a different country?

Yep, they all fly away to a different country to have their Formula One race.

Cool.

Interesting, right?

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