Listeners continue to invent names of Greek gods by pronouncing familiar words with the accent on the wrong syllable. There’s Mediocrities, god of “things that are just pretty much okay”; Lotteries, “the god of random numbers”; and that not-so-well-known “muse of lung sounds,” Stethoscopes. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Lesser Greek Gods”
Our listeners continue to have fun inventing the names of lesser-known Greek gods by pronouncing familiar words with the accent on the wrong syllable, like Tentacles, the god of octopuses, or something like that.
We heard from David Savilla in Athens, Ohio, who sent us the name Mediocrities. That’s the god of things that are just pretty much okay. Mediocrities. Mediocrities.
Yeah. And then we heard from John Mink in Palo Alto, California, who sent us lotteries. That’s the god of random numbers. And Jim Gossens of Burlington, Vermont, sent us the name of the muse of lung sounds. Any idea what that is, Grant?
The muse of lung sounds? Oh.
How would you hear lung sounds?
Coficles.
I don’t know.
That’s good.
How about stethoscopy?
Oh, instead of stethoscope, stethoscopy.
That’s very good.
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