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An Interview with John Morse, Part 3

Épisode 103

mardi 15 juillet 2025 • Durée 48:00

Part three of a three-part interview with John Morse, former president and publisher of Merriam-Webster

Hosted by Emily Brewster and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media, with much gratitude to John Voci.

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An Interview with John Morse, Part 2

Épisode 102

vendredi 11 juillet 2025 • Durée 47:20

Part two of a three-part interview with John Morse, former president and publisher of Merriam-Webster

Hosted by Emily Brewster and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media, with much gratitude to John Voci.

Transcript available here.

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When Dictionaries Drop Words

Épisode 93

mercredi 15 juin 2022 • Durée 25:38

We’ve discussed how words come to be entered in our dictionaries before, but today we’re going to talk about removing words from dictionaries. Which words get dropped? And why?

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

Transcript here.

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How do you even pronounce 'antennae' anyway?

Épisode 4

mercredi 19 août 2020 • Durée 25:11

After a job well done, you might receive kudos. But today we ask: can you ever receive just one? Or is it just the sound of one hand clapping? Then, we explore a topic that loves to make even the most seasoned English speakers second-guess themselves: Latin plurals.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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A Collection of Obscure Words That You Might Find Useful

Épisode 3

vendredi 14 août 2020 • Durée 10:00

Few parts of the English language fascinate its users more than obscure and obsolete words. Today, our in-house collector of errant words Ammon Shea brings us a few words that may have been lost to history, but perhaps might be worth picking up and dusting off.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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Ice Tea and Semantic Drift

Épisode 2

jeudi 13 août 2020 • Durée 26:37

Terrific. Fantastic. Wonderful. Can we properly use these words without referring to terror, fantasy, or wonder? Today our editors look at one of the most dependable sources of language change: semantic drift. Then, we cool down with a discussion of how ‘ice’ and ‘iced’ function to describe various refreshing beverages.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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'Irregardless': You Don't Have to Like It

Épisode 1

mercredi 12 août 2020 • Durée 24:11

Welcome to Word Matters! In our first episode, we ask a simple but surprisingly complex question: when is a meal supper and when is it dinner? Is there even a difference? Then, we navigate one of English’s most fraught topics. That’s right, we’re talking about the word (yes, WORD) irregardless.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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Introducing Word Matters

Épisode 1

mardi 4 août 2020 • Durée 02:33

From the editors at Merriam-Webster, Word Matters is a show for readers, writers, and anyone who ever loved their English class.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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Wordle Does Not Make Us Nauseous

Épisode 92

mercredi 8 juin 2022 • Durée 17:39

Some listeners want to know if working with words professionally makes a dictionary editor better, or worse, at Wordle, and another listener wants us to weigh in on the difference between 'nauseated' and 'nauseous'—which doesn’t turn our stomachs in the least.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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The Invention of the Modern Dictionary

Épisode 91

mercredi 1 juin 2022 • Durée 33:40

The earliest dictionaries were the fruit of one person’s labor, but the 1864 Webster's Unabridged changed all of that.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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