Amid the stacks of new titles at the library, Grant picks out The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame to read with his son. The hosts discuss the appeal of classic children’s books. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
A new transplant to Dallas wants to assimilate into the Texan way of speaking without offending the locals or forcing any new vocabulary. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Texas Talk” Hi, you have A Way with Words. Good...
Evan in Madison, Wisconsin, learned that peruse means to read closely and carefully but keeps hearing it used for a quick skim. The older sense was even stronger, meaning to use thoroughly, use up, or exhaust, and then later to pore over a text long...
In the Pacific Northwest, the term spendy means “expensive.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Spendy” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is Joseph, downtown San Diego. Well, Joseph, welcome to the...
Vic from Indianapolis, who works at a newspaper, bristles at colleagues saying I’m efforting that, as in having reporters efforting a photo or asking whether the paper is efforting something. The verb effort has been heard before and may have a...
Some families have their own idiosyncratic rules for Scrabble. Grant talks about the rules in his house. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Family Scrabble Rules” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m...