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A Way with Words, a radio show and podcast about language and linguistics.

When we say, “listeners like you,” we mean it!

Listeners like you make up more than half the funding of A Way with Words through donations. And the radio show/podcast still hasn’t raised enough funds to ensure new episodes in 2025. There are less than two...

What a Strange Couple of Years It Has Been!

With your support, 2021 will be a pivotal year for A Way with Words. With your help, and by tightening our budget, through 2019 and 2020, we’ve managed to weather the pandemic while still increasing listenership both on the radio and by...

Online Event August 27, 2020: Lemonade, Anyone?

We held our first video streaming event supporting the educational mission of Wayword, Inc., the nonprofit that produces A Way with Words on August 27, 2020. Watch below for a personal conversation about language (of course), books, home life...

We’ve come a long way!

In 2007, the public media organization that created A Way with Words had a problem. They loved our show but a deep recession meant the station couldn’t afford to keep producing it. So they canceled it. That could have been the end of A Way...