AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a look backward! RS: As we do each New Year, we're going to play one of our favorite recordings. It's a skit about a cowboy with an unusual speaking habit. AA: The piece is call...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- wishing you good health over the holidays, with Slangman David Burke. RS: Once again, just for our listeners, Slangman David Burke has rewritten a popular children's fairy tale...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we talk about Junk English. RS: That's the title of a new book. Author Ken Smith spent six months immersing himself in the language of popular culture. He found a lot of it junk...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we take some of the stress out of learning which words to stress in American English. RS: We turn to Lida [lee-da] Baker. She's an instructor at the American Language Center at...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER -- what's it like to be an English teacher in America today? I put that question to an expert at the recent convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, in Baltimore, Maryland. Meet Carol...
TAPE: CROWD NOISE AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a visit to Baltimore, Maryland, for the ninety-first annual convention of N-C-T-E -- the National Council of Teachers of English. These teachers take American kids through reading...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- using a dictionary to help define the law of the land. RS: The next time you go to an English dictionary to look up a word or settle an argument, you might take comfort in knowi...
MUSIC: Hanging on the Telephone/Blondie AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- some tips on telephone etiquette. MUSIC: ...don't leave me hanging on the telephone, don't leave me hanging on the telephone... RS: One p...
MUSIC: Syncopated Clocks/Leroy Anderson AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- time for some slang! This past week, the United States went off Daylight Savings Time and onto Standard Time for the next six months. So...
AA: I've Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- come with us to the American Midwest to meet a young man who teaches English to speakers of other languages ... lots of other languages. RS: His name is Josh Atherton. He taught En...
