AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- curse words in American English. RS: We can't say them on the air, but a listener in Sokoto, Nigeria, Paul Ezeani, would like us to talk about them. So we found an expert who ha...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster -- a response to the issues we raised last week when we talked about a new book called The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. RS: The author, Diane R...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER we discuss a new book: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. RS: The author is Diane Ravitch, a historian of education and a professor at New York...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- we answer some questions we've gotten about how to pronounce words in American English. RS: We'll start with a question from an American expatriate in Thailand. Bob Wildman write...

HOST: Each Thursday our Wordmasters talk about American English. Filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble this week is VOA's Adam Phillips. He looks at some of the marks that wars have left on the language we use in the United States. Adam spok...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- a way to find out what people are talking about. First, though, a story. (SOUNDS OF RUSHING WATER) RS: Imagine a waterway. Fish rush by. Lots and lots of different fish. A comput...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster the rhetoric of war. RS: Professor Amos Kiewe is director of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University in New York State. He says research on the rh...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we offer a few minutes of relief with a look at some stress-related slang. RS: We got on the phone to Los Angeles to our friend David Burke, better known to our listeners as Sla...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- questions and more questions! RS: Listener Ahmed Mustaque sends this question by e-mail from somewhere in cyberspace: Could you please tell me about the word 'being.' AA: Being...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Finding inspiration in the words of those around us. RS: The American poet Emily Dickinson wrote the lines I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair o...