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Prefix

Posted by Grant Barrett on September 29, 2012 · Add Comment

Why does the prefix in- sometimes make a synonym rather than an antonym? In the case of invaluable, the prefix is still a negation, since it suggests that something’s value is incalculable. Michael Quinion‘s website affixes.org shows how in- prefixes have changed over time. This is part of a complete episode.

Lots of Newness

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 22, 2012 · Add Comment

Hey, will you look at that! It’s the new A Way with Words website! We’ve made it easier to search, switched to a new way of playing shows in the browser, updated it to look much better on smartphones and tablets, overhauled the episode pages, updated the forums, and a whole lot more. Read our [...]

Welcome to the new website!

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

After months of work, here it is: the new A Way with Words website. We took a lot of things into account in the renovation, but the biggest category of considerations has been what you, our listeners and visitors, needed. We not only gave you what you asked for, we gave you a whole lot [...]

A Poem From Us

Posted by Grant Barrett on June 23, 2012 · Add Comment

On the website A Poem From Us, people upload videos of themselves reading poetry from other writers. Here, David Jones reads “A Cradle Song” by William Butler Yeats. This is part of a complete episode.

Behind every hour is you — another five years!

Posted by Grant Barrett on June 11, 2012 · Add Comment

A Way with Words is celebrating its fifth anniversary as an independent program! Thanks to your donations, the show is now heard across North America and around the world by more than a quarter-million listeners each week. When we took over the show in 2007, we knew how to make radio. We knew what people [...]

Elegant Variation

Posted by Grant Barrett on April 6, 2012 · Add Comment

Did you miss our recent brand-new episode in which we talked about the game rock-paper-scissors, Band-Aids vs. plasters, Yiddish proverbs, jonesing, and more? Listen to it on our website or download the MP3. We aired a rebroadcast last weekend (rerun, encore edition, in-case-you-missed-it, etc.). Listen online or get that MP3, too. A lot of people [...]

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