ShowSegments

These are discrete parts, or segments, of whole episodes from the radio show A Way with Words. Each episode has about ten to 15 segments. If you click on segment names, you should find a playable audio file where you can listen to just that segment without having to seek through a whole episode.

Get the Chop Word Game

Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been pondering those old digital displays on car dashboards that sometimes cut off part of the name of the song playing on the radio. For example, what song would really be playing if the truncated title was...

Why Money is Sometimes “Cool”

While reading Great Expectations (Bookshop|Amazon) by Charles Dickens, a listener in Arlington, Texas, is surprised when one of the characters inherits some money, which Dickens describes as a cool four thousand. Were they really using cool that way...