Infanticipating is a playful way to say someone is pregnant, remembered by Doug as a coinage from radio legend Paul Harvey. At Doug’s family business, the radio signaled that lunchtime was near, and Harvey’s turn of phrase stuck. The blend of infant and anticipating joins the many ways to say someone is pregnant. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Infanticipating” Is a Playful Word for Being Pregnant”
You remember our conversation about all those words and phrases for being pregnant. Yes, yes.
As a matter of fact, yeah, that’s right. We heard from Doug Lester, who wrote us, “I grew up listening to Paul Harvey. At the family business, I knew lunchtime was at hand when the radio came on.”
One of his coined terms, which I use to the amusement of some, is his term for being pregnant: infanticipating. I like that. And that’s the rest of the story. And now you know the rest.
Those were the days. I miss Paul Harvey. Yeah, that was something about my childhood, the AM radio and Paul Harvey. And was it noon when they played it in St. Louis?
Well, that’s what he was saying, that he knew it was lunchtime.
Yeah, I think it was in Kentucky, too.
And he just had that smile in his voice, and he told you the rest of the story, which we do on this show.
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