Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 30, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: June 2, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- etymology meets entomology! The new movie Spider-Man inspired us to untangle some spider-rel...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of persuasion, from an expert. RS: Eric Knowles is a social psychologist at the University of Arkansas. He heads a laboratory group that recently held a Symposium o...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 9, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: May 12, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- advice for battling weasels of a wordy sort. RS: Weasels are small, nasty animals. Their reput...
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 18 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: April 21 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we look at the teaching of English to non-native speakers at younger and younger ages. RS: Members o...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Has the word minority outgrown its usefulness? RS: Minority means less than half. In the United States, members of non-European racial and ethnic groups are generally referred to...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- help for English learners who have trouble pronouncing words with the letters t-h. RS: Our friend Lida Baker joins us with a pronunciation lesson. She writes textbooks for Engli...
INTRO: As long has language has existed, it has been in a constant state of change, and as long there have been dictionaries lexicographers have been trying to keep up with those changes. James Donahower reports on the flood of new words entering the...
SFX: Bird sounds AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER 鈥?with spring time approaching here in the United States our thoughts turn to bird watching. RS: Birds are easy to spot in everyday speech. A hierarchy in an org...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- the language of electronic mail. TAPE: CUT ONE -- NAOMI BARON As e-mail is developing more and more users, it's also developing more and more styles. There's one style that says...
A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and, now that the Olympics are over, we're back with WORDMASTER. This week -- going for gold in using the dictionary! RS: We looked up our friend Lida Baker. She teaches in the American Language Center at the U...
