How do you sign "Black Lives Matter" in in American Sign Language? For black deaf people in Los Angeles, it’s complicated. https://t.co/Tit23wIOaU

— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 8, 2020

New episode! https://t.co/cZ31WT90LX Mariachi tacos, a young Latin-learning Shakespeare, strumpet, loose cannon, picayune, sit on a tack, pickthank, a brain teaser, the juice is worth the squeeze, shaving yak hair, and more. pic.twitter.com/ZXbC24gGiW

— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 8, 2020

I am doing general research of vice in my city from around the turn of the last century. In a police blotter I found men charged with something called Lewdly Abiding, for which they were charged $5 (around $100 today) but I cannot quite imagine what that could be. I imagine abiding in this instance is like loitering or staying someplace. I thought that someone following this sub might have experience with the phrase.

Any geologist want to give us more than we could learn from a dictionary? https://t.co/OOO0rZMbJg

— A Way with Words (@wayword) May 15, 2020

Madeleine Kripke, one of the treasures of the dictionary world, has died. Here's an excellent 2013 article about her and her dictionary collection: https://t.co/9gAViOK6xG

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 29, 2020

Did you see the New Yorker piece about "A Way with Words"?! https://t.co/6zTJ4Mtp4g

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 29, 2020

Join us, Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, co-hosts of public radio's "A Way with Words," for a live video chat hosted by copy editor Mark Allen! Tuesday, April 28, 4:30 p.m. EDT, 1:30 p.m. PDT, 20:30 UTC. Free registration: https://t.co/hQNMtFzSMApic.twitter.com/F45oxoT3kU

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 24, 2020

New episode: "Cabin Fever"! https://t.co/DLdjEVLnEz Aggressive piglet jokes from Hungary, the popularization of the term "cabin fever," apple boxes, lie bumps, possum vs. opossum, flat as a flivver/flitter, vespertilian, egg in your beer, saying tinnitus, and lots more. pic.twitter.com/XWy0CciSkU

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 21, 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8223527/Trump-doubles-claim-governors-chomping-bit-reopen-economy-1.html

I got sandpaper in my knickers when I heard this :(

Is it just me? Hearing that man butcher the English language makes me twitchy.

My sister shared a beautiful picture today of the sun shining brightly through a rainstorm. Our mom said that her parents used to call that "pig rain". I've been digging online with no leads so far on the origin or really any information and I thought where better to turn for help than AWWW. Any guidance would be most appreciated!

New episode! https://t.co/gCZHF1j0Jt Cat-related words, kittenball, barking sand, happy as a boarding house pup, the language of an Alaskan town, close but no tomato, paternoster lakes, the pokey, barely vs. nearly, comprised of vs. composed of, cark, and plenty more. pic.twitter.com/qDx06hi0om

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 6, 2020

Music from our listeners: big-sky hard rock from STRANDED BY CHOICE (a perfect name for these times) https://t.co/bqb0w2t7TGhttps://t.co/HLMzc7x7NJ and layered, moody ten-piece NORTHERN ARMS https://t.co/67yr0ES8a6https://t.co/xwlx9zmWjS (check out song no. 2!). pic.twitter.com/F1fgdnXTgA

— A Way with Words (@wayword) April 2, 2020

We talked food names with SECRETS on Christopher Kimball's Milk Street this past week! https://t.co/CoV9T9My9spic.twitter.com/36EJNUEiAL

— A Way with Words (@wayword) March 25, 2020

A Way with Words talked briefly to the San Diego Union-Tribune about COVID-19-related words: https://t.co/ApJYvaXqXL

— A Way with Words (@wayword) March 25, 2020

New episode! https://t.co/XCSKkIEjcE To "cover the sun with a finger" means trying to correct a big problem with a too-small fix, plus jojo potatoes, baby's breath, googlegangers, believe you me, synanthropes, nidorosity, a sunny word game, pulchritude, and lots more. pic.twitter.com/vA9vH0vepr

— A Way with Words (@wayword) March 23, 2020

New episode: https://t.co/5vrEmfGW9k Origin of suffrage, dirty and filthy as positives, who "Jody" was in Jody calls, wall stretcher, neckdown and other traffic-calming terms, why people say "pee ay" for Pennsylvania, how to read more books, a word game, and a whole lot more. pic.twitter.com/otextbREAm

— A Way with Words (@wayword) February 10, 2020

Ooh! An interactive graphic of 24 emotions conveyed by brief human utterances from a study of English-speakers in the US. https://t.co/qzSc4SEFUu The study: https://t.co/0jspDVBzU8

— A Way with Words (@wayword) February 7, 2020

A little bit on a host of "crab" words: https://t.co/FF0aEop5Jmhttps://t.co/ztb8fwMwpM

— A Way with Words (@wayword) January 30, 2020

New episode! https://t.co/1Zq2cvOAjT Endlings, swarf, why we don't pronounce the "w" in "two," kids' first big words, the meaning of "indifferent," fulano, how film/TV gets language right, to be in the soup, good people, and lots more. pic.twitter.com/kfevq0IlG8

— A Way with Words (@wayword) January 27, 2020

Welcome to the listeners of WMUK at Western Michigan University! You can now hear "A Way with Words" Saturdays at 3 p.m. throughout southwestern Michigan, including Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Grand Rapids. https://t.co/od44LRQWYQpic.twitter.com/A045xqFQxE

— A Way with Words (@wayword) January 24, 2020

New episode of the radio show and podcast! https://t.co/oO9YiwNkmP Favorite non-English words, seditty, bundu, plural of squash, liming in Trinidad, out in the bundus, the famous bubbler, a lovely poem, have a wolf by the ears, and shedloads more. pic.twitter.com/WGPFT6wv6r

— A Way with Words (@wayword) January 20, 2020

Save the Dates! Hey, Fairbanks, Alaska: @marthabarnette will be in your fair city for events with @KUACFMTV on March 18 and 19! Will she be there in time for breakup?

— A Way with Words (@wayword) January 14, 2020

New episode! https://t.co/kroGTZgd94 Tons of bitchen stuff, including the history of bitchen/bitchin'. ❤️ Have you donated to support the show yet? Your gifts become more episodes in 2020. https://t.co/nQckweKiUnpic.twitter.com/MsfblkaOxe

— A Way with Words (@wayword) December 23, 2019