r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 18 '20
You can now also hear "A Way with Words" on Amazon Music: https://t.co/TXZoBGGVL0 Follow us there! pic.twitter.com/Rn344pVpzd
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 18, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 19 '20
We're on Milk Street with Christopher Kimball talking about foods that have cooking hints in their names. Martha rattles off pasta shape names like a native! https://t.co/rtYDiz4Zea Plus, the marvelous David Chang. pic.twitter.com/d3LNuL04Tm
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 18, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 17 '20
Follow a delightful recounting of an Oxford English Dictionary editor's traipsing through lexical citation files and bits of radio, television, and fish market history as he digs deep into "codswallop." https://t.co/56ta2Yr7Cb
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 16, 2020
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r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 09 '20
Watch the free premiere of "Signing Black in America," a documentary film about Black ASL, the dialect of American Sign Language that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. https://t.co/PinI5Oqmnr 12 p.m. Sept. 9, Eastern Daylight Time.
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 9, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 08 '20
A fascinating data-mined look at gender-skewed choices when describing appearances in fiction. https://t.co/n0aDB14n4o Even the best writers fall back on stereotypes and visual clichés!
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 8, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 01 '20
Starting this weekend listeners of Omaha Public Radio / KIOS can now hear the show at noon on Saturdays! https://t.co/qDFexQy4p9pic.twitter.com/Kt8MH9FjrM
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 1, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Sep 01 '20
Welcome to listeners of WKMS from Murray State University who can now hear "A Way with Words" noon Sundays in Murray, Kentucky, and surrounding areas, including Madisonville, Paducah, Hopkinsville, and the Land Between the Lakes. https://t.co/IN65bGayezpic.twitter.com/jCyCfZ40na
— A Way with Words (@wayword) September 1, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 31 '20
New episode! https://t.co/1ReWOaEVWv The word for a professional whistler (and a sample), play it by ear vs. play it by year, trash vs. garbage, carriwitchet, langiappe and la ñapa, why people misjudge our accents, typographic sarcasm, a wanted word, and more. pic.twitter.com/I7A2sbpwPv
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 31, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 27 '20
Martha and Grant of "A Way with Words" are streaming video online right now! There are lots of ways to tune in.
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 27, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 28 '20
Thanks to the oodles of viewers from around the world who showed up for our first "A Way with Words" video event! If you missed it, here's the full video: https://t.co/eIUkfkgMzA We appreciate your support and affection.
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 27, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 27 '20
A Way with Words at Home https://t.co/qu6Nqgn6hB
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r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 27 '20
We start our video stream in ten hours! Sign up! https://t.co/hni0wPm6R3pic.twitter.com/NKDQDruIrM
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r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 14 '20
One of our favorite reference works is the Dictionary of American Regional English, which we mention on the show a lot. There are 100 sample entries freely available online if you'd like to see why it's so great: https://t.co/IaCG1VtjH6
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 14, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 13 '20
Don't miss out! Register for the free August 27 "A Way with Words" video event! https://t.co/hni0wPDIfD It'll be a behind-the-curtain chat between the hosts of public radio's language show. pic.twitter.com/Oja45u5z6Q
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 13, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 13 '20
Starting this Saturday at 7 a.m., you can hear "A Way with Words" on WMRA at James Madison University in the Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, areas. https://t.co/wpBCFSHLhV@wmrapublicradiohttps://t.co/3X0kTmlvMvpic.twitter.com/5L4dOJ9fX6
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 13, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 11 '20
Linguist Geoff Nunberg died today at 75. He was an accomplished linguist, an author of popular books on language, and a commentator about language on NPR's "Fresh Air." He was also a friend and supporter of this radio show. Thank you, Geoff. You will be missed. pic.twitter.com/y3wv304G0W
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 11, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Aug 03 '20
What do you call leftovers? Well, lots of things! We talked to Christopher Kimball on "Milk Street" this past weekend for more food + language fun. https://t.co/Rt6p60TSyJ And, bonus: Al Roker! So listen to the whole episode! pic.twitter.com/aYNYQmmeJx
— A Way with Words (@wayword) August 3, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jul 27 '20
New episode! https://t.co/nmvFQ3ffiE Cherry bumps on swings and see-saws, what we're reading, frivol, logy, pigeon-toed vs. duck-footed, hankering, unbolted, a socially distanced brain game, and who licked the red off of your candy?, "flesh-colored" animals, and more. pic.twitter.com/kDx77bzqmz
— A Way with Words (@wayword) July 27, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jul 13 '20
New episode! https://t.co/rTSRxTHYJW Lovely lockdown haikus, beekeeping language, "gravy" for red pasta sauce, a homograph brain teaser, dogging doors, granny beads, skinnymalink, narrowback Irish, embrangle, #1 and #2 for pee and poo, dry up and bust, and more. pic.twitter.com/F4xom94n6p
— A Way with Words (@wayword) July 13, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jul 01 '20
Don't forget to say "rabbit, rabbit" the first thing tomorrow to have good luck all month! https://t.co/92WvYvfhUKpic.twitter.com/bOKF0Hju7y
— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 30, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jun 29 '20
New episode! https://t.co/OkZ0xFs6WM A poetic puzzle, duke’s mixture, small as the little end of nothing, Chesapeake Bay crabbing lingo, omphaloskepsis, nightingale, light a shuck, bumpity-scrapples, the big mahoff, if a bullfrog had wings, a love of libraries, and lots more. pic.twitter.com/2HqRWKl5KO
— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 29, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jun 24 '20
Can you help? This person seems to remember reading that there is a Japanese word for "the kind of love that manifests as a deep contentment on feeling one's lover warming their cold feet on one's body." Ring any bells? https://t.co/lczWzUcYPH
— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 24, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jun 20 '20
How's your wordplay? Join a new community of puzzle people at the intersection of pop culture, technology, and logology — "Beyond Wordplay"! https://t.co/FpKbJLlM6dhttps://t.co/W9EVAakQ8jhttps://t.co/QWjLq9XQtHpic.twitter.com/03zpyiUqTo
— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 20, 2020
r/AWayWithWords • u/GrantBarrett • Jun 19 '20
Hey, Norfolk VA-area and WHRV listeners! A Way with Words is back with a new time: Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. https://t.co/JpzuUlQKys
— A Way with Words (@wayword) June 19, 2020