Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: November 6, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the American National Corpus! RS: In linguistics, a corpus is a body of words. It's language collected in context, from books, poem...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: October 30, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the story of one of life's little truths. RS: It's a law we all live under, and it goes this way: If anything can go wrong, it will...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: October 23, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- it's time for our monthly chat with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles. RS: We were sad to hear that even Slangman, who's always s...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: October 16, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we invest some time with the author of a book about financial terms. SCOTT: Stock markets around the world have done fairly well, b...
Broadcast: October 9, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we talk with the author of a book called Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language. RS: Ilan Stavans is a professor of Latin American and Latin...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: October 2, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles talks about improving English pronunciation by understanding the idea of thought groups. R...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 25, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of non-verbal communication. Two writers, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong, have put together a book of one-hundre...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 18, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, h...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 11, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some letters from listeners. RS: From Russia, Natasha writes: A friend of mine went to the US for her summer vacation. She's got 4...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 14, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- the sound of silence in American English. RS: If you're looking for clues to people's emotions, you could listen to what they say. Y...