英语单词大师：Cliches

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the catch of the day, terms from the sea. Lots of nautical expressions have washed ashore into everyday English. Alan Hartley researches them for the Oxford English Dictionary

英语单词大师：Listener Mail

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some letters from listeners. RS: From Russia, Natasha writes: A friend of mine went to the US for her summer vacation. She's got 4 years of study at Moscow Linguistic University b

英语单词大师：Language of Terror2

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- more about terrorism and language. TAPE: CUT ONE -- BUSHNow is the time to draw a line in the sand against the evil ones.RS: President Bush, speaking this past week. Geoff Nunber

英语单词大师：Language of Terror1

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- language and the impact of the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the United States. RS: Start with something as simple as the date. September eleventh, or 9-11 as Americans

英语单词大师：Grammar Lady

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppos

英语单词大师：TESOL Teacher

AA: Ive Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- come with us to the American Midwest to meet a young man who teaches English to speakers of other languages ... lots of other languages. RS: His name is Josh Atherton. He taught Eng

英语单词大师：Old Slang

MUSIC: Syncopated Clocks/Leroy AndersonAA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- time for some slang! This past week, the United States went off Daylight Savings Time and onto Standard Time for the next six months. So we

英语单词大师：Telephone Etiquette

MUSIC: Hanging on the Telephone/BlondieAA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- some tips on telephone etiquette. MUSIC: ...dont leave me hanging on the telephone, dont leave me hanging on the telephone... RS: One perso

英语单词大师：Supreme Court

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- using a dictionary to help define the law of the land. RS: The next time you go to an English dictionary to look up a word or settle an argument, you might take comfort in knowin

英语单词大师：Food-Related Slang

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, he's whipped up one of his exclusive stories base

英语单词大师：Gestures

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of non-verbal communication. Two writers, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong, have put together a book of one-hundred-eight gestures and their various, and sometime

英语单词大师：Groups in Spoken

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles talks about improving English pronunciation by understanding the idea of thought groups. RS: Thought groups are something we don't even

英语单词大师：Spanglish

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we talk with the author of a book called Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language. RS: Ilan Stavans is a professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst Colleg

英语单词大师：'Wall Street Words

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we invest some time with the author of a book about financial terms. SCOTT: Stock markets around the world have done fairly well, but in the U.S. money has come back into stocks

英语单词大师：Really Bad Day

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- it's time for our monthly chat with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles. RS: We were sad to hear that even Slangman, who's always so happy, occasionally has a really bad day. SL

英语单词大师：National Corpus

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the American National Corpus! RS: In linguistics, a corpus is a body of words. It's language collected in context, from books, poems, recorded conversations, newspapers, broadca

英语单词大师：English Dictionary

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- evasive maneuvers in American English. RS: Listening to a conversation on a train one day got Maggie Balistreri thinking. She became interested in the ways that Americans can sa

英语单词大师：Spider Hole

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we look into spider holes and some other terms that have come out of the war in Iraq. RS: Sunday's news of the arrest of Saddam Hussein included some military lingo that has cap

英语单词大师：Word of 2003

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- winning words for 2003 as voted by a small group of linguists and other scholarly observers of the language. RS: More than seventy members of the American Dialect Society voted

英语单词大师：Phrasal Verbs

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: They're all around us, especially in spoken English. The first word is a verb. The second w