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Interview Archives: Language and Linguistics
Thursday, January 11, 2001
1:06 pm
HOW WE TALK: AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH TODAY
Allan Metcalf, Professor of English at MacMurray College, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
2:45 pm
RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S COLLEGE DICTIONARY
Carol Braham, Senior editor of Random House Reference
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Friday, March 15, 2002
12:40 pm
NIGGER: THE STRANGE CAREER OF A TROUBLESOME WORD
Randall Kennedy, Professor, Harvard Law School
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Categories: English Language • Language and Linguistics • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Thursday, October 03, 2002
12:40 pm
MESHUGGENARY: CELEBRATING THE WORLD OF YIDDISH
Sol Steinmetz, Lexicographer, editor, writer
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Thursday, August 28, 2003
1:06 pm
LANGUAGE VISIBLE: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF THE ALPHABET FROM A TO Z
David Sacks, Writer
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Categories: History • Language and Linguistics
Monday, September 29, 2003
1:06 pm
ISLAND OF BLOOD: FRONTLINE REPORTS FROM SRI LANKA, AFGHANISTAN, AND OTHER SOUTH ASIAN FLASHPOINTS
Anita Pratap, Award-winning CNN South Asia Bureau Chief until January 1999; independent documentary filmmaker
Guest Host: Jim Meadows
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Categories: Biography • Business and Economy • History • Language and Linguistics • Media and journalism • Politics • War • Asia • India
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
2:45 pm
THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR WRITERS, EDITORS, AND PUBLISHERS
Anita Samen, Managing editor of The University of Chicago Press
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Categories: English Language • Language and Linguistics • Writing
Thursday, February 12, 2004
2:45 pm
MAKING WHOOPEE: WORDS OF LOVE FOR LOVERS OF WORDS
Evan Morris, Internationally-syndicated columnist of "The Word Detective"
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Categories: English Language • Language and Linguistics • Relationships • Writing
Monday, November 19, 2007
2:45 pm
Ann Drew Jackson
Joan Clark, Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist and Write
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:06 pm
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, And The Creation Of Roget's Thesaurus
Joshua Kendall, Award Winning Freelance Journalist
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Categories: Biography • Language and Linguistics
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