Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905, in Worcester, Mass. As a child he would scour the dictionary for a new word each day—but not just any word. “It was a big word, a word like eleemosynary or phantasmagoria,” he told Elizabeth Farnsworth of PBS. Once Kunitz had stumbled upon a word to his liking, he'd run outside, shout the word out loud, and revel in the sounds.

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