# Michael Quinion
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michael quinion (born c. 1943) is a British etymologist and writer. He ran World Wide Words, a website devoted to linguistics.
Technology Corner 2007.02.04: The value of your eyeballs, an interview with Corel, and Nerdly News
Would you read commercial messages if someone paid you to do it? Recent version of Corel's Graphics Suite have been more reliable and I talked with a product manager about that change. In Nerdly News, Michael Quinion says Googlebombing no longer works and a Google failure this week goes unexplained…
WRITER 057: We chat to Rachel Power, author of 'Creativity & Motherhood: The Divided Heart'
Brilliant words that we should add to the dictionary, time-saving tools for busy writers, the coffee-shop writer – Jane Costello, the fastest-selling adult novel in history, how to make a motza as a self-published author, the book Why is Q Always Followed by U? By Michael Quinion, Writer in Residen…
Dog-and-Pony Show (Rebroadcast) - 3 March 2014
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your offspring once they’ve grown up? Adult children? How about kid-ults? Plus, is there really such a thing as a dog-and-pony show? What does a dog chewing w…
Dog-and-Pony Show (Rebroadcast) - 22 April 2013
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your offspring once they’ve grown up? Adult children? How about kid-ults? Plus, is there really such a thing as a dog-and-pony show? What does a dog chewing w…
Dog-and-Pony Show - 1 October 2012
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your offspring once they’ve grown up? Adult children? How about kid-ults? Plus, is there really such a thing as a dog-and-pony show? What does a dog chewing w…
Cut to the Chase - 27 Dec. 2010
This week: whether cotton-pickin’ is racist, unintentionally funny headlines, whether enormity can simply mean “enormous,” how a person can be “such a pill,” and pandiculation. “It’s good stuff, Maynard!”
Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywor…
L-U-R-V-E, Love - 22 June 2009
Favorite online reading. If the subjunctive tense were to disappear from English, would anybody care? And just in time for this romantic weekend, a caller discovers the meaning of…lurve. That’s L-U-R-V-E.
Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywor…
S2:E11 – “Phoenix Under Siege”
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: January 5th, 1987 —
Mac and Harry encounter a Die Hard situation on the way to a hockey game
MISSION: When a team of terrorists set their sites on the Phoenix Foundation building, MacGyver and Harry throw a wrench into their plans by showing up in search of missing hockey ticket…
The Teaching Morphology Rabbit Hole and Word Cracking
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In this episode, Bill, Michael and Sally discuss morphology teaching and begin to demystify a body of knowledge that sometimes feels like the next frontier for teachers. Most of us have got our heads about the importance of phonemes and training young brains to work with them at a…
Wet My Whistle
Everybody thinks medieval pubs had cups with whistles baked into them. You blew the whistle, you got a refill. It's a great story and somebody made it up.
On this episode, Mario and Twenty are joined by Myron to trace the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of "wet my whistle." The w…
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