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: February 26, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- telling less, and showing more. RS: Adjectives are words that modify or describe nouns. But here's how a lot of writers and writing teachers describ...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 19, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, p...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 12, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- enough about politics, today we talk about love! RS: We were searching for a topic for Valentine's Day -- it's this Saturday, you...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 5, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we continue our discussion of American political rhetoric. RS: The Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University says two times...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: January 29, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- political rhetoric in America. RS: This time, Howard Dean didn't scream. He finished what he called a solid second behind John Kerr...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: January 22, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: They're all around us, especially in spoken E...
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: January 15, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- winning words for 2003 as voted by a small group of linguists and other scholarly observers of the language. RS: More than seventy...
Broadcast: January 8, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a passel of palindromes in our traditional salute to January! RS: When you can spell something forward or backward and have it read the same, that's a...
Broadcast: December 18, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we look into spider holes and some other terms that have come out of the war in Iraq. RS: Sunday's news of the arrest of Saddam Hussein included som...
