Is it cheating to say you’ve read a book when you’ve really just listened to the audiobook? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “”Reading” an Audiobook” You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it...
Stories From The Onion In this week’s episode, Martha and Grant discuss not-to-be-believed articles about language from the satirical newspaper The Onion, including one headlined “Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut Past Tense from Language Programs...
A middle-schooler who’s reading Anne of Green Gables is puzzled by a mention of “breakfast, dinner, and supper.” She wants to know if the words “dinner” and “lunch” really interchangeable. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...