Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family ex
How often do you hear the words campaign and political in the same breath? Oddly enough, 19th-centur
The names of professional sports teams often have surprising histories -- like the baseball team nam
You may have heard the advice that to build your vocabulary you should read, read, and then read som
This week on "A Way with Words": The language of political speech. Politicians have to repeat themse
How do languages change and grow? Does every language acquire new words in the same way? Martha and
The stories behind slang, political and otherwise. The dated term "jingoism" denotes a kind of belli
Book recommendations, including a collection of short stories inspired by dictionaries, and a techno
The game of baseball has alway inspired colorful commentary. Sometimes that means using familiar wor
Brand names, children’s games, and the etiquette of phone conversations. Those clever plastic PEZ di
When does a word’s past make it too sensitive to use in the present? In contra dancing, there’s a pa
Have you ever offered to foster a dog or cat, but wound up adopting instead? There's an alliterative
It’s a positive attitude. It’s who we really are. Go to https://waywordradio.org/mission . Learn mor
In this episode: How colors got their names, and a strange way to write. The terms blue and orange a
Teen slang from the South, and food words that are tricky to pronounce. • High schoolers in Huntsvil
Have you ever wanted to know who we really are? How Grant and I really see ourselves? Go to https://
There’s a proverb that goes “beloved children have many names.” At least, that’s true when it comes
When writing textbooks about slavery, which words best reflect its cold, hard reality? Some historia
Malamute, kayak, and parka are just some of the words that have found their way into English from th
To transmit information during wartime, various industries used to encode their messages letter by l
Funny cat videos and cute online photos inspire equally adorable slang terms we use to talk about th
