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

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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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When Pigs Fly

April 13, 2025

Don’t move my cheese! It’s a phrase middle managers use to talk about adapting to change in the workplace. Plus, the origin story of the name William, and why it’s Guillermo in Spanish. And a five-year-old poses a question that...

Cool Beans

April 6, 2025

If you speak a second or third language, you may remember the first time you dreamed in that new tongue. But does this milestone mean you’re actually fluent? And a couple’s dispute over the word regret: Say you wish you’d been able...

A Cool Million

March 30, 2025

So many books and so little time—it’s a challenge to choose what to read next! It helps to remember that so-called “reading mortality” is a fact of life—you’ll never get to them all, but you can curate your own to-read list...

Love Bites

March 22, 2025

The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas. Today it refers to hijacking a piece of legislation. Plus, the language of yoga teachers: When doing a guided meditation, you may hear...

Wicked Good

March 16, 2025

To grok something means “to understand it completely.” The word grok comes from a language spoken on the planet Mars—well, at least according to the science fiction writer who coined the term! Also, we know the meaning of the word...

Lasagna Hog

March 9, 2025

Understanding the varieties of conversational styles can mean the difference between feeling you’re understood and being insulted. “High-involvement” speakers interrupt or talk along with someone else to signal their enthusiasm...

Kiss the Cow

March 1, 2025

An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” Some people’s first names are anadromes. There’s the girl named Noel...

Smack Dab

February 23, 2025

A flashlight emits a steady beam of light. So what’s the flash part of that word about? Also, if you’re a nervous Nellie, you’re skittish and indecisive—both characteristics of an American politician who earned that nickname in the...

Lead On, Macduff!

February 16, 2025

For rock climbers, skiers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, the word send has taken on a whole new meaning. You might cheer on a fellow snowboarder with Send it, bro! — and being sendy is a really great thing. Plus: a nostalgic trip to Willa...

Holy Toledo

February 9, 2025

In 1944, an Italian scientist discovered a drug that he later named for his wife. His wife’s name was Marguerite, but she went by Rita — which is why this now familiar drug is known as Ritalin. Plus, a poem about churning butter shows how a...

Tribble Trouble

February 2, 2025

In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for “stairs,” and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we don’t already have words for. Any guesses what incogsneeto means? It’s the...

Ring-Tailed Tooter

January 25, 2025

National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a foreign language. And third, find out what you truly believe, because if you’re not writing from...

Potato Wagon

January 19, 2025

Thunderstorms might sound scary, but playful explanations for all those booms can help reassure little ones: How about the potato wagon’s rolling over the bridge? Or the angels are going bowling? Plus, if you just finished enjoying an...

What the Blazes?

January 12, 2025

What kind of book do people ask for most often in prison? Romance novels? No. The Bible? No. The most requested books by far are … dictionaries! A number of volunteer organizations gather and distribute used dictionaries to help inmates with...

Mudlarking

January 5, 2025

Twice a day the River Thames recedes, revealing a muddy shoreline. Hobbyists known as mudlarks stroll the surface searching for objects that have found their way into the river over the centuries, everything from ancient Roman jewelry to modern...

Snaggletooth

December 29, 2024

Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...

Honkus Bonkus

December 22, 2024

The phrase old as Methuselah describes someone quite advanced in years. In ancient scripture, Methuselah was a man who somehow lived to the ripe old age of 969. Plus, a heartwarming book for children tells the story of how a Puerto Rican family...

Like a Boiled Owl

December 14, 2024

What’s it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You’ll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories to tell. Along the way, you’ll also pick up some slang, like NoBo, SoBo, Yo-yo and...

Price of Tea

December 8, 2024

The words cushy, cheeky, and non-starter all began as Britishisms, then hopped across the pond to the United States. A new book examines what happens when British words and phrases migrate into American English. Also, if you speak a language besides...

Your Two Cents

November 30, 2024

Astronauts returning from space say they experience what’s called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our need to reflect on what humans all share as a species. A book about the end of the universe...

Latest Segments

What Makes A Great Book Opening Line?

March 30, 2025

What makes a great first line of a book? How do the best authors put together an initial sentence that draws you in and makes you want to read more...

Slip Someone a Mickey

March 30, 2025

To slip someone a mickey means to doctor a drink and give it to an unwitting recipient. The phrase goes back to Mickey Finn of the Lone Star Saloon...

Bohemian, a Word Fittingly Traced through Literature, Theater, and Intertwined Cultures

March 30, 2025

How did the term Bohemian come to be associated with literary and artistic nonconformists who live outside mainstream society? In the early 19th...

No Business Telling

March 30, 2025

How could you stop reading after a novel that begins like this? I had this story from one who had no business to tell me, or to any other...

Get the Chop Word Game

March 30, 2025

Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been pondering those old digital displays on car dashboards that sometimes cut off part of the name of the song playing on...

How Do Dictionaries Settle on a Preferred Pronunciation?

March 30, 2025

Rich, an audiobook narrator from Tucson, Arizona, wonders how lexicographers decide which pronunciations are preferred. He specifically wonders about...

Jo-Jo Potatoes, Those Fried Delights You Miss Once You Know Them

March 30, 2025

Patrick in Muncie, Indiana, is fond of jojo potatoes, those delicious deep-fried, seasoned wedges also known as Jo-Jos, and wonders how they got that...

Why Money is Sometimes “Cool”

March 30, 2025

While reading Great Expectations (Bookshop|Amazon) by Charles Dickens, a listener in Arlington, Texas, is surprised when one of the characters...

It Was the Best of Lines, It Was the Worst of Lines

March 30, 2025

Stellar first sentences from Bianca Bosker’s Cork Dork (Bookshop|Amazon) about her quest to become a sommelier and from A Tale of Two Cities...

The Best Way to Choose Your Next Book

March 30, 2025

Given the fact of reading mortality—-the awareness that it’s physically impossible to read all the books we’d like...

At Ramona, They’re Walking the Nose

March 30, 2025

While reading Dean Koontz’s book The House at the End of the World (Bookshop|Amazon), a listener in Ramona, California, encountered the perfect...

Will You? Won’t You? Can’t I Coax You?

March 30, 2025

Suzanne in Tucson, Arizona, says her mother used to say the following to her quickly: Will you? Won’t you? Can’t I coax you? Aw...

Ai, Ohio! Man, West Virginia! Are Not Exclamations But Places

March 16, 2025

After our conversation about towns with extremely short names, many listeners wrote to tell us about Why, Arizona. Others pointed out that there are...

Stranger With a Strange Word: Grok

March 16, 2025

Debbie from Crawfordsville, Florida, says that when she and her husband reach an impasse while working on something, they’ll say Let’s...

Cut to the Chase Means Get to What Everyone Wants

March 16, 2025

Rod in Alexandria, Louisiana, says that in his real estate business, cut to the chase means to “get to the bottom line.” In the early...

Air Conditioning With a Do-It-Yourself Crank: 4-55

March 16, 2025

The slang term 4-55 air conditioning is means cooling a car by driving fast with all the windows down. This is part of a complete episode.

Segments Word Games

He’s a Competitive Quizzer and He Does Well on Tests?

March 16, 2025

Quiz Guy John Chaneski is back with another “Take-Off” game in which the object is to take one letter from a word suggested by a clue to...

Wicked is a Very Fine Intensifying Adverb if You’re a New Englander

March 16, 2025

Since the 13th century, the adjective wicked has meant “bad” or “evil.” So why do people in New England use wicked as an...

Hell Strip and Gardening Strip Aren’t Kinds of Skin Waxing

March 16, 2025

Following our conversation about the use of the term devil strip to denote the strip of land between sidewalk and street, listeners chimed in with...

Emphasizing the Article Before a Noun by Nasalizing It

March 16, 2025

Jane in Denver, Colorado, notes some people using the term an in front of a word beginning with a consonant, as if to emphasize that word by...

Pangram, the Redux Redux Redux

March 16, 2025

A Los Angeles, California, listener shares the following pangram, a succinct but understandable statement that contains all 26 letters of the...

To Concertina Like an Accordion

March 16, 2025

Fans of the popular British baking show know that you don’t want your many-layered cake to concertina, or “collapse like an accordion...

Norn Words like Gruggy and Skump

March 16, 2025

The haunting new novel Clear (Bookshop|Amazon) by Carys Davies is set amid the Scottish Clearances of the 19th century, a relentless program of...

What Word Means the Opposite of Trauma?

March 16, 2025

Steven from San Antonio, Texas, seeks a word that means “the opposite of trauma.” Perhaps eustress, literally “good stress”...

Animal Kingdom Segments

A Chicken’s Dream

March 16, 2025

A listener who spent years in Ethiopia and Eritrea learning the Tigrinya language shares two sayings he learned there, both having to do with poultry...

Corny, and Jokes in Your Seed Catalogs

March 16, 2025

The adjective corny describes someone or something “unsophisticated” or “naive.” This sense of corny goes back at least as...

Alley-Oop and Hoopla

March 16, 2025

Michelle in Williamsburg, Virginia, wonders about the origin of alley-oop!, which she says when hoisting her toddler. It’s from French allez...

Hit ’Em With the Cardboard Oh-Ah and Dah-Dah

February 23, 2025

The cardboard cylinder left after the last sheet of toilet, tissue, or wrapping paper comes off the roll has inspired families to make up a lot of...

“Hitten” Every Green Light

February 23, 2025

A native Texan says his Canadian wife teases him about his use of hitten for a past participle, as in You have hitten every green light instead of...

Smack Dab, Smack Jam, and Smack Bang

February 23, 2025

Kerry from Omaha, Nebraska, wonders why smack dab means “precisely in the middle.” Long used in Appalachia and the American South to make...

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