Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family ex
Remember Tom, the guy who's still trying to remember a word he insists he learned long ago meaning '
A caller asks a delicate question about the phrase 'blue bark shipment,' a term involving the transp
A caller sends Grant and Martha off on a slang-infested trip about ways of saying a fast good-bye. L
Discover the joys (and temptations!) of two new books of collected wisdom: The Yale Book of Quotatio
When you were a child and wanted to lay claim to something, what did you say? Did you call dibs? Or
Martha reminisces about her family's mountain roots while dipping into the delicious vocabulary of S
What's the name for that little dent in your upper lip? It's called a philtrum. Martha reveals the e
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: The results of the A Way with Words Collective Noun
Do you know what a “buffet flat” is? Is it A) a type of shoe you wear to all-you-can-eat dinners, B)
The Pod Couple—also known as Martha and Grant—consider just when is "next week" or "this Monday" any
Earlier this summer a word caught my fancy: "gardentoolism." So I made a slang quiz about it!Read fu
Few are the words whose origins we know for certain, but “bunk” is one of them. From the mountains o
Yo, listeners! There’s another online-only podcast from “A Way with Words.” This time, Grant answers
In June, Grant attended the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America. One of the
Martha muses about the secret lives of flowers in this week’s podcast. She’s been pondering the lexi
