Fletcher Powell
- Username: fpowell
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Station-Based
Recent Pieces from Fletcher Powell
The Etymology Olympics
(29:00)
From: KMUW
With the world's greatest sporting event upon us, we look at the origins of some sports-related words.
Is This a Fossil? Or Just Some Dumb Old Rock?
(28:59)
From: KMUW
A listener question prompts us to think about words like rehabilitate, revamp, and nonplussed, and whether we can be plussed about habilitating and vamping, or if we're just ...
The Ambiguity of English (Is the Name of My Jazz Band)
(29:00)
From: KMUW
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.
It's a Dead Language, I Always Say
(29:00)
From: KMUW
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.
Cranberry Morphemes
(29:00)
From: KMUW
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...
Final Exams
(29:00)
From: KMUW
As we head into summer, we'll take a look back to see if we can remember what we've learned over the past year.
The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee
(28:59)
From: KMUW
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.
The Oldest of Old Worlds
(28:58)
From: KMUW
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 years.
Smooshed-up Words
(29:00)
From: KMUW
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.
