Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Abrams PressISBN-13:9781419778841ISBN-10:1419778846UPC:9781419778841Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Memoirs, Social HistoryBook Topic:EtymologySize:8.38 x 5.84 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCQAA7QQBY
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
With warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life and time on the air Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of A Way with Words, lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as "a virtual treasure house" and "'Car Talk' for Lexiphiles."...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Abrams PressISBN-13:9781419778841ISBN-10:1419778846UPC:9781419778841Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Memoirs, Social HistoryBook Topic:EtymologySize:8.38 x 5.84 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCQAA7QQBY
Martha Barnette is a longtime journalist, dynamic public speaker, and co-host of the popular radio show and podcast A Way with Words. She holds an undergraduate degree in English from Vassar College, did graduate work in classical languages at the University of Kentucky, and studied Spanish in Costa Rica. Barnette is the author of A Garden of Words, Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies, and Dog Days...
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