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In That’s Not English by Erin Moore, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a…
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Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even…
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Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we…
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In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss Bartok and music as language.Celebrating “White Nights” of the…
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In the past, expressions like "horsefeathers," "blinkers," and "coxy-loxy" were all the go around towin, but they have since largely disappeared from the…
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This morning's panelists are WAMC's Ray Graf, David Guistina, and Joe Donahue.In this abbreviated panel we're asking listeners to call in with their…
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Natalie Goldberg, teacher and author of Writing Down the Bones, joins us to talk about her new book: The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with…
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In 1973 in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the…
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The founding fathers felt that coining words and creating new uses for old ones was part of their role in creating a new American culture and language,…
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Writers know it instinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. Grammar gurus agree: Drama in writing emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a…