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

Step right up! It's another newsletter from "A Way with Words."

This week we talked about unusual ways foreigners learn English, "play golf" vs. "go golfing," lie vs. lay, similes, "yo!," "neck of the woods," "warsh," and more. Listen:

https://waywordradio.org/a-walk-spoiled-but-our-lie-is-good/

Martha has produced an electrifying podcast about how experiments with dead frogs and live wires led to the invention of the battery and inspired a couple of familiar English words.

https://waywordradio.org/leapin-lexical-inventions/

"Shakespell" looks like fun: a Yorkshire family's spelling game with dice. Portable, costs five quid. Neat.

http://tinyurl.com/cqq6oc

What words do you hate? More than 770 people have answered so far.

http://www.plinky.com/prompts/53/answers

The two of us? We love all words though some get a few more hugs than others.

Best wishes,

Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett
Co-hosts of A Way with Words
https://waywordradio.org
words@waywordradio.org

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