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An upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more. #linguistics #language #podcast #radio #sociolinguistics #dialects #wordorigins #etymology #wordgames #neologisms #newwords #slang #books #literature #writing

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One week from tomorrow! The Thalia Potamianos Lecture by renowned classics scholar Emily Wilson, translator of The Iliad & The Odyssey on May 8—introduced by Comma Queen Mary Norris. Free, but you must register to attend or livestream. https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/thalia-potamianos-annual-lecture-series-lecture-iii-the-wisdom-of-stories

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/electric-soup/ The antarctic accent, art jargon, stravenue and stroad, dingle day, booty, clambake, a conga quiz, to go to the salt mines, death eating a cracker, daffodil vs. jonquil, new books about language, #, and lots more.

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Hey, NYC! Don't miss the Thalia Potamianos Lecture by renowned Iliad & Odyssey translator Emily Wilson May 8! Free, but you must register to attend or livestream. @EmilyRCWilson @ASCSAthens @MaryNorrisTNY https://ow.ly/OOQz50Rbz8x

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/blue-dolphin/ Stopping um and uh, Appalachian medical terms, language mouthfeel, pan-pan, inkhorn terms, Hollywood anachronisms, dout, Werner Herzog’s new memoir, an abecedarian puzzle, latibulate, agelastic, and lots more.

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It's just around the corner! Visit ABAA's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair April 4-7. We're grateful for their support of our show! https://tinyurl.com/5cnrzk2w

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Listen to your "A Way with Words" hosts talk about restaurant language on Chris Kimball's "Milk Street": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-kimballs-milk-street-radio/id1158889592

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/gilded-age/ Escaping family tyrrany via poetry, egg creams, chin dimples, arrested sternutation, nonplussed, slatch, the Gruen effect, tinker, barnburner, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, naming lakes, a word game, and lots more.

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A new musical about grammar, and a fabulous review of it by the one and only @MaryNorrisTNY! A must-read for word nerds. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/comma-queen/a-musical-for-and-about-grammar-sticklers

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/bronx-cheer/ What to someone who is grieving, un-Mexican tamales, sometimes the bear eats you, horsengoggle, a cryptic quiz, cowing around in Québécois French, Pearl at the picnic, a cheesy pangram, the big bird, how to pronounce labret, and lots more.

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...what to SAY TO someone who is grieving... Clearly, words fail us all in difficult moments.

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Mark your calendars for the ABAA's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4-7! We're grateful for their support of our show. https://shorturl.at/owZ24

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/ghost-runner/ Japan-made English, Steve is a phenomenon, kenspeckle, nitnoy, faire la grasse matinée, sunday-go-to-meeting, sana, sana, colita de rana, a mystery dress code, an action metaphor game, ghostie, gander’s arch, fluffle, and more.

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/sweet-spot/Choosing book club books, plant blindness, tight as a drum, altered Stephen King titles, sweet spot, lemniscate, kehrätä, mais garde donc, fourth-person pronouns, meronymy, shambles, semantic bleaching, the business end, and more.

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One week from tonight! Join Martha for the 2nd Thalia Potamianos Lecture by classics scholar @emilyrcwilson at Georgetown University. @ASCSAthens https://www.eventbrite.com/e/destiny-tradition-choice-tickets-794109632287

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It's not too late to fix this! A Way with Words is still $45K short of our 2024 budget that will mean new episodes next year. Your support is crucial to make this national radio show and podcast. Please give now: https://waywordradio.org/donate Thank you!

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Join Martha at Georgetown 1/24, where she'll introduce classicist Emily Wilson's lecture, "Destiny, Tradition, Choice" in the Gennadius Library's Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series.

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Did you enjoy the "A Way with Words" radio show and podcast this year? Donate to keep new episodes coming in 2024: https://waywordradio.org/donate/ We depend on listener support and can't do it without you!

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New episode! https://waywordradio.org/takes-all-kinds/ A new crossword book, break a leg, conversate, quesadilla, "kill two birds with one stone" alternatives, touch base vs. touch bases, no te comas el coco, in bocca del lupo, eat = did well, pulled through a knothole, a brain teaser, and more.

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Grant and the Dictionary.com team chose their 2023 word-of-the year: "hallucinate," in the artificial intelligence meaning of producing unexpected false information and presenting it as if true. Learn more and read the shortlist: https://content.dictionary.com/word-of-the-year-2023/

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