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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Naked as a Jaybird (Rebroadcast) - 24 June 2019
Description: What’s the best way for someone busy to learn lots of new words quickly for a test like the GRE? Looking up their origins can help. Or, record yourself reading the words and definitions and play them back while you’re doing other chores. • Book recommendations for youngsters, military slang, and the one-word prank that sends Army recruits running — or at least the ones who are in on the joke! • FANBOYS, technophyte, galoot, land sickness, to have one’s habits on, zonk, and a sciurine eulogy.Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and q...