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Bonus! New Word Open Mic

There's a new online-only episode of "A Way with Words" today: a half-hour "New Word Open Mic" from the 2007 Dictionary Society of North America conference, during which all comers were invited to step up to the microphone and submit a new word they had coined or found.

Find out more here:

https://waywordradio.org/openmic

https://waywordradio.org/dsna

Special thanks to Charles Hodgson of Podictionary.com for recording the audio and agreeing to let us use it on the show.

Thanks!

Martha Barnette & Grant Barrett

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