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Odile Marchetti: This is The Long Vowel, season two: outside. I'm Odile Marchetti.

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Teodor Halvorsen: I'm Teodor Halvorsen. Our guest works on the ferry between Den Helder and the island of Texel: Thijmen Oudshoorn. Thijmen, what's the word?

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: Uitwaaien. Uit is out, and waaien is to blow, like the wind. So, to blow out.

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Odile Marchetti: That sounds like a candle.

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: A bit, yes. But it's you who goes out. You walk into a strong wind on purpose, to get your head clear.

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Teodor Halvorsen: It has to be windy?

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: It has to be properly windy. A nice summer walk is not uitwaaien. You want weather that pushes you. Rain sideways is fine. On the dyke, on the beach, you lean into it, and after half an hour your thoughts are blown out of you.

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Odile Marchetti: Who does it?

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: Everybody. After a funeral. After an exam. A family on the second day of Christmas, after too much food: we go uitwaaien on the beach. Children, dogs, grandmothers in big coats.

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Teodor Halvorsen: You work on a ferry. You must get a lot of it for free.

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: Every day. On the crossing there is always somebody at the back of the deck in the worst wind, holding on with both hands, smiling. Tourists think something is wrong. It's just somebody doing uitwaaien.

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Odile Marchetti: Do you join them?

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: On a break, yes. Twenty minutes in a northwest wind and whatever the problem was, it's smaller. Not gone. Smaller.

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Teodor Halvorsen: Is there a word like it anywhere else?

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Thijmen Oudshoorn: Other countries go for walks, of course. But for us the wind is free, and there is a lot of it. It's the cheapest cure in the Netherlands.

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Odile Marchetti: Thijmen Oudshoorn, thank you.

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Teodor Halvorsen: That was uitwaaien. Next, a word from Hindi for the fix that should not work.