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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Hunk Waffle (Rebroadcast) - 2 September 2019
Description: Decisions by dictionary editors, wacky wordplay, and Walt Whitman's soaring verse. Â How do lexicographers decide which historical figures deserve a mention or perhaps even an illustration in the dictionary? The answer changes with the times. Plus, a tweet about basketball that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. It goes: "LaBron has played more career minutes than MJ, Shaq, Hakeem, Ewing, and others. Crazy how we never expect him to get fatigued in a game." Turns out there's an entire Twitter feed full of tweets that pull off that same linguistic trick! Also, a Walt Whitman poem t...