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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Typewriters We Have Loved - 31 Mar. 2008
Description: (This episode first aired January 5, 2008.) Ding! In this week's episode, Mark Twain would be pleased. Reports that it's the end of the line for the typewriter have been greatly exaggerated. Well, slightly anyway: it's not the horseless carriage return yet. Martha and Grant wax nostalgic about the pleasures of pecking away at a rumbling, shuddering Selectric. A newspaper headline about a faltering legislative proposal prompts a caller to ask: Should they have written 'floundering' or 'foundering'? A longboarder reports she and her fellow surfers refer to young surfers as 'groms' or 'grommets'--not to...