WOTY on NPR (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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"American Dialectic Society"?  "Thee-ah-saurus"?  Marty Moss-Coane has a
dialect all her own. . .

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> From: American Dialect Society
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> Poster:       Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
> Subject:      Re: WOTY on NPR
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> Ben,
>
> You're a great spokesman for linguists everywhere.  Very
> professionally done.  I'm specifically talking about the WHYY
> interview which I listened to in its entirety.
>
> Your instant recall memory about words suits you well to
> being the point man for interviews about words and their
> history and meaning.
>
> As Barry Popik once opined--"Ben Zimmer.  Hate that guy."
>
> Of course, Barry meant that in the way we all do.  To
> paraphrase Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid--"Who IS that guy!"
>
> Sam Clements
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin Zimmer" <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 14:41
> Subject: WOTY on NPR
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>
> > I've done a couple of NPR call-in shows previewing our WOTY fun.
> > Earlier today was "Radio Times" with Marty Moss-Coane on
> WHYY out of Philly:
> >
> > http://www.whyy.org/91FM/radiotimes.html
> > audio: http://www.whyy.org/podcast/010609_110630.mp3
> >
> > And a couple of weeks ago I covered the same ground on "At
> Issue With
> > Ben Merens" on Wisconsin Public Radio:
> >
> >
> http://www.wpr.org/merens/index.cfm?dteShowDate=2008-12-22%2017%3A00%3
> > A00
> > audio: http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/bme/bme081222m.rm
> >
> >
> > --Ben Zimmer
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