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Hi, language lovers!

Happy March 4, and Happy National Grammar Day! (Get it? "March forth" and syntactically sin no more?) Join the revelry here:

http://www.nationalgrammarday.com/

In other news, there's a new episode of "A Way with Words," featuring pet's names, the original meaning of "snicklefritz," the last word in the dictionary, why some wags push back from a meal saying, "I am sufficiently suffonsified," and more.

https://waywordradio.org/sufficiently-suffonsified/

Also, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg's has a great follow-up to Grant's recent "On Language" column in the New York Times about the most beautiful words in English:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2142

Do you call the legume "chickpeas" or "garbanzo beans"? We're taking a survey to find out of there is a regional difference in uses of the term:

http://bit.ly/9pOKbX

As always, call or write if there's a language topic you'd like to discuss on the air.

By the way, we bring you all this food for word-loving thought thanks to tax-deductible help from folks like you, so don't procrastinate--and for Samuel Johnson's sake, please don't perendinate!

Drop by https://waywordradio.org/donate and chip in. You'll get a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling, we promise.

Grammatically yours,

Martha and Grant
Co-hosts of "A Way with Words"
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