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Local poet Henry Kneiszel talks about their new book "It's All Too Much I'm Ready to Become a Canada Goose"
- Added: Sep 19, 2024
- Length: 07:29
Must, could, should, shall, might, may... We dig into the weird, wiggly, weaselly world of modal verbs.
- Added: Aug 29, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
With Charli XCX sparking a summer phenomenon, we take a look at the nature of slang: who uses it, why we use it, and how we need to be very careful...
- Added: Aug 15, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at language rules that are rules sometimes, and rules that don't make sense. Well, they make some sense. Whatever. They're rules, anyway.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
This week, we're talking ambiguous words and ambiguous phrases. Sometimes we think we know what we're saying and sometimes we're really wrong.
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- Added: Jul 10, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Latin may be dead, but we still use it every day. This week, we look at some common Latin phrases and what they actually mean.
- Added: Jul 03, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We know what a berry is, we know what a cranberry is, but what the heck is a "cran?" We enter the sometimes murky world of the cranberry morpheme...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Kirstin Cronn-Mills talks about her new book "Rules for Camouflage"
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 09:50
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
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- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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: 5
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
Marie Zhuikov talks about her new book of essays “Meander North”
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 15:14
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
