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A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about language, on the air since 1998. Author Martha Barnette and dictionary editor Grant Barrett take calls about slang, grammar, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well. Join them on the air in the U.S. at 1-877-929-9673, in London at +44 20 7193 2113, in Mexico City at +52 55 8421 9771, via email at words@waywordradio.org, on the web at http://waywordradio.org/, on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wayword, and via Skype to the user name "wayword."
09/06/2010: A Murphy, a Melvin, and a Wedgie - 6 Sept. 2010
Language-related Facebook groups, word puzzle, fits and stars, bring vs. take, rhyming compounds, sound of fingernails on a chalkboard, more...[More at waywordradio.org] [mp3] [Share]
08/30/2010: Sailor's Delight (rebroadcast) - 30 Aug. 2010
08/01/2010: The Thought Plickens (rebroadcast) - 2 Aug. 2010
Criteria vs. criterion, word puzzle, history of OK, David Pogue, bike-shedding, tohubohu, crayon pronunciation, more...[More at waywordradio.org] [mp3] [Share]
07/25/2010: A Whole Nother (rebroadcast) - 26 July 2010
07/18/2010: Down A Chimney Up (rebroadcast) - 19 July 2010
Redd up a table, out like Lottie's eye, word puzzle, riddles, woobies and blankies, poems and poetry, a Spanish proverb, more.[More at waywordradio.org] [mp3] [Share]
07/11/2010: Picklebacks and Mountweazels (rebroadcast) - 12 July 2010
Phrases we hate, raring to go, mothers-in-law, jakey bum, word puzzle, slang quiz, jungftak, and more...[More at waywordradio.org] [mp3] [Share]
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