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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.
Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, language change and varieties, as well as word histories, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more. Be a part of the show with author/journalist Martha Barnette and linguist/lexicographer Grant Barrett. Share your language thoughts, questions, and stories: https://waywordradio.org/contact or words@waywordradio.org. In the US 🇺🇸 and Ca ...
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NWR Contributors Perry and Casey come together every week to do what they do best, Talk Nintendo. Each episode the boys talk about what they've been playing, Nintendo news, Craigslist finds and have a rotating Topic of the Show segment.
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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024. It's about all of life from climate change to culture and politics to people through the prism of food. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land - through books. Hear how A- ...
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This week, we’re back at Rockwater, Hove talking LIVE with Melissa Hemsley, food writer of six best-selling cook books, including her latest, the Sunday Times bestseller, Real Healthy. A delicious reminder of how to unprocess our diet with easy, everyday recipes, the book is an antidote to ultra processed foods. Gilly chats to Melissa about everyda…
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Names don’t always mean what you think they mean. Main Street in San Francisco is named after businessman Charles Main, and Snowflake, Arizona, honors two guys named Snow and Flake. Plus, big words for small people: A colorful new book introduces kids to colossal words (including the word colossal!). And limber up those muscles — we have a trove of…
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We're all over the board today, talking about Those Games 2, Luigi's Mansion 3, Stardew Valley and more!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intros and Ramblin: (0:00:10)Those Games 2: (0:06:36)Mario Golf Beef???: (0:16:48)Perry Stuff (Luigi's Mansion 3 and Castlevania): (0:27:01)Earth Defense Force 6:…
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This week, we’re going back to London, 2002, a time before pomegranate molasses, when Nigella and Jamie were first on the telly and Ottolenghi had yet to chuck his flavour bombs into the salad bowl of British cuisine, to the publication of the very first Diana Henry book, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons. Click here for Gilly's previous chats with Diana…
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One secret to writing well is . . . there is no secret! There's no substitute for simply sitting down day after day to practice the craft and learn from your mistakes. Plus, childhood mixups around word definitions can lead to some funny stories. After all, if you didn't know any better, why wouldn't you assume a thesaurus is a prehistoric creature…
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We're all over the board with this one, but we make sure to talk the latest and greatest, Nintendo World Championships NES Edition!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intros and Ramblin: (0:00:10)Hades: (0:07:00)Doom Eternal: (0:13:04)Nintendo World Championships NES Edition: (0:25:05)Castlevania Lord…
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This week, in the very first Cooking the Books LIVE at Rockwater in Hove, an audience with Guardian Feast columnist, Rachel Roddy. Rachel is the author of three books about her life in Italy including the multi award winning Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome which was first published in 2015 and now reissued in 2024. It’s the …
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There are eight major planets, but more than a million minor ones, including asteroids. If you discover one, you get the honor of naming it. The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names includes minor planets named for rock bands, jazz musicians, poets, and more. Plus, if you’re waaaaaaaaaay interested in something, you can say so in writing: just add lots…
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Here at the Talk Steam Deck Podcast we're talking all things Deck mainly Casey's acquisition and the recently released Anger Foot. We do find some time to talk about some othe things too, like Listener Mail! Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intros and Ramblin: (0:00:10)Steam Decking: (0:11:00)Castl…
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This week, as the schools get ready for the long summer holidays, Gilly is with the woman everyone needs to pop in their suitcase if they’re heading to France, Carolyn Boyd, author of Amuse Bouche, How to Eat Your Way around France. Carolyn has guided Gilly through the best food destinations – and therefore THE best destinations in France for the l…
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Goody Two-Shoes (Rebroadcast) - 15 July 2024
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She sells seashells by the seashore. Who is the she in this tongue twister? Some claim it’s the young Mary Anning, who went on to become a famous 19th-century British paleontologist. Dubious perhaps, but the story of her rise from seaside salesgirl to renowned scientist is fascinating. Also: countless English words were inspired by Greek and Roman …
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We got a whole lot to talk about this week including Metroid Samus Returns, Fallout 4, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, and Beyond Good and Evil!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intros and Hellos: (0:00:10)Metroid: Samus Returns: (0:04:51)Random Casey stuff: (0:12:44)Fallout 4: (0:20:40)Luigi's Mansion 2 HD: …
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This week, we’re off to Seoul with British-Korean writer, Su Scott. Su has lived in Britain longer than she lived in Korea where she grew up, and has raised her own daughter in London. But her latest book, Pocha tells the story of the country she left behind, her family and the food they shared, often in the pochas, the covered markets and food sta…
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When you’re distracted by trying to get the perfect photo at a wedding or fiddling with your camera during a solar eclipse, you’re missing out on some of the experience itself. There’s a term for this: It’s called overshadowing. Plus one of Lionel Hampton’s old bandmates recalls hearing him greet fellow musicians with “How you doing, gates?” It may…
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We got the whole crew together once again!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Start of Show: (0:00:09)Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble: (0:08:40)End of Show: (0:54:00)Thank you for listening! We can tell that you are a good-looking person.Peep the discord: https://discord.gg/XPByvgvByQPlease write in t…
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: How to Eat 30 Plants A Week
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This week, as the UK (and France) go to the polls, Gilly chats to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about the best way to support the NHS, his latest book How to Eat 30 Plants a Week. Last time we met to talk about the River Cottage’s Good Comfort, his message was to swap out the less healthy ingredients for more, eating healthily not by taking stuff out…
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Chris Van Tulleken: Ultra Processed People
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This week in an extra episode in the run up to the UK General Election to remind everyone why we must get the next government to fix the food system, Gilly meets Chris Van Tulleken, TV, radio and infectious diseases doctor who catapulted the term ultra processed food into the public consciousness in 2023 with his book Ultra Processed People. Now ou…
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A hundred years ago, suffragists lobbied to win women the right to vote. Linguistically speaking, though, suffrage isn’t about “suffering.” It’s from a Latin word that involves voting. Plus: military cadences often include Jody calls, rhyming verses about the mythical guy who steals your sweetheart while you’re off serving the country. But just who…
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Episode 407: Less East, But More North
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Bad North himself joins us as we put a twist on Mystery History that we think you'll enjoy!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intro and Hellos: (0:00:10)Mystery History HD2D: (0:07:13)Switch 2 Talk: (0:40:00)Outie: (1:00:00)Thank you for listening! We can tell that you are a good-looking person.Peep …
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Giulia Crouch: The Happiest Diet in the World
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This week, we’re with Giulia Crouch to look at the diet of the Blue Zones that will make us not only live long and healthy lives, but is the Happiest Diet in the World. A little known fact: the very first book Gilly wrote back in 1993 on the back of a Channel 4 series called Food File was The Mediterranean Health Diet: the delicious way to lose wei…
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S6E37: Summer Eats & a visit to Moncton’s O’Creek Brewing
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Friends, if you haven’t made a visit to O’Creek Brewing, you MUST go! Their space is ah-maz-ing, they have an incredible selection of their own brews & some other local faves, AND they’ve started the... The post S6E37: Summer Eats & a visit to Moncton’s O’Creek Brewing first appeared on Pickle Planet Moncton.…
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Language from inside a monastery. A Benedictine monk in the Episcopal Church shares terms from his world: For example, corporate prayer refers to praying as a group. And did you know there’s a term of art for those annoying add-on costs when you buy tickets online? It’s called drip pricing. Plus: Why do we hear the word Perfect! when we’ve answered…
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NINTENDO DIRECT WOOOOO!Hosted by Perry Burkum (@PBurkum), Casey Gibson (@case_jets), Alex Culafi (@culafia)Intro and Hellos: (0:00:10)Nintendo Direct: (0:03:09)Poll Results Time: (0:51:49)Outros and Goodbyes: (0:55:41)Thank you for listening! We can tell that you are a good-looking person.Peep the discord: https://discord.gg/XPByvgvByQPlease write …
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This week, we’re with Irish chef, Anna Haugh to talk about her first cookbook, Cooking with Anna. Anna is a massive part of the story of British food culture, leaving Dublin as a young woman to cook in the steamiest kitchens in London – Shane Osborn’s Pied a Terre, Philip Howard’s The Square and Gordon Ramsay’s London House. But in 2019, she opened…
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S6E36: Fast Fashion Shopping meets Old Fashioned Rug Hooking in public participation art project
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Fast fashion’s environmental impact is being explored with a hands-on project by textile artist Mélanie Paulin, the current artist-in-residence at the Dieppe Arts & Culture Centre. She’s inviting the public to take part, bringing old... The post S6E36: Fast Fashion Shopping meets Old Fashioned Rug Hooking in public participation art project first a…
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Walkie Talkie (Rebroadcast) - 17 June 2024
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One of the most powerful words you’ll ever hear — and one of the most poignant — isn’t in dictionaries yet. But it probably will be one day. The word is endling, and it means “the last surviving member of a species.” The surprising story behind this word includes a doctor in a Georgia convalescent center, a museum exhibit in Australia, the Tasmania…
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