Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: March 11, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- getting hyper about correctness. RS: English once had a system where nouns took different forms depending on whether they were the su...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 31, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we talk with grammarian Patricia O'Conner. She's out with a second edition of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 24, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a look at the book writers turn to settle questions of style. RS: University of Chicago Press is just out with the 15th edition of the...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 17, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- names used in slang. RS: Take Johnny come lately. That's an opportunist who tries to gain from something started by others. AA: We cer...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 10, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER -- a look at some of the ten-thousand new words and meanings in a popular American dictionary. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary co...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 3, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER -- English in early America. It's a timely topic, as Americans get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July. On that day in seventeen-seventy...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 26, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we chat again with English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles about how to encourage English learners to speak up in class. RS: This we...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 19, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- encouraging English learners to talk in class. RS: We asked English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles how she gets conversation starte...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 12, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- finding the right language to speak to what is now the nation's largest minority group. RS: According to the Census Bureau, the United...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 5, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- it's the end of another school year in America, which explains why our guest had time to talk to us. RS: Sandra Madriaga supervises an...
