AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a guide to some political talk in America. This week, reporters asked President Bush about a television commercial that attacked the Vietnam War record of his Democratic opponent,...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thought of a sentence -- or something that looks lik...
DAVE ARLINGTON: Every Thursday we bring you another report in our Wordmaster series, looking at American English. Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble will be back next week. In their place, we meet a man who puts just a few words together in unusual ways...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the voice of American presidents. RS: Allan Metcalf of the American Dialect Society has just written a timely book. It's called Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Wa...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: with the National Museum of the American Indian opening in Washington, we look at Native American influence on the English language. RS: Linguist Marianne Mithun is author of the...
It's autumn in New York -- time for an all-new razzle-dazzle season on Broadway, the undisputed capital of the American stage. For over one hundred years, audiences have been going to Broadway shows to be moved and entertained blissfully unaware of a...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a lesson in complaining. RS: English teacher Lida Baker is with us from Los Angeles to discuss a topic suggested by one of our listeners, an English teacher in Iran. His students...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we have a special guest to discuss creative writing. CHITRA DIVAKARUNI: My name is Chitra Divakaruni, and I am a writer and also a professor of creative writing at the University...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we continue our conversation about creative writing with a self-described addicted, compulsive reviser.RS: Chitra Divakaruni has written four novels; her newest, Queen of Dreams,...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: proverbs in American English. RS: It's tempting to call Wolfang Mieder the proverbial expert from out-of-town. A professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, he...
