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We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
This week, Kathy and Ross quiz Fletcher on a list of words that may or may not have been coined by Shakespeare. You might be surprised by which one...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
We look at why Americans love to talk like our friends from across the pond-- or like to *think* that's what we're doing.
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- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes, we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.
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- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about maki...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know the...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how, exactly, we should be saying foreign words so tha...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Doublespeak! We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we ...
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- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 3
Who are we? What are we doing here? This episode will introduce listeners to host Fletcher Powell and language experts Kathy Petras and Ross Petras...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Author Nate Patrin talks about his new book "The Needle and the Lens: Pop goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave"
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 09:18
Ned Netzel and Nic Peloquin talk about the new cookbook "Smoke on the Waterfront"
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 08:41
Author Amy E. Casey talks about her NEMBA nominated book "The Sturgeon's Heart"
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 06:33
Author and Illustrator Chris Monroe talks about her new book "Sasquatch and Squirrel"
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 08:30
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Marie Zhuikov talks about her new book of essays “Meander North”
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 15:14
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for an hour on poems we need right now.
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...
- Added: Dec 03, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
