词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: 'Hansel and Gretel'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- wishing you good health over the holidays, with Slangman David Burke. RS: Once again, just for our listeners, Slangman David Burke has rewritten a popular children's fairy tale

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Palindrome

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a look backward! RS: As we do each New Year, we're going to play one of our favorite recordings. It's a skit about a cowboy with an unusual speaking habit. AA: The piece is call

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Using a Dictionary

A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and, now that the Olympics are over, we're back with WORDMASTER. This week -- going for gold in using the dictionary! RS: We looked up our friend Lida Baker. She teaches in the American Language Center at the U

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Language of Electronic Mail

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- the language of electronic mail. TAPE: CUT ONE -- NAOMI BARON As e-mail is developing more and more users, it's also developing more and more styles. There's one style that says

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman:'The Ugly Duckling'

SFX: Bird sounds AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER 鈥?with spring time approaching here in the United States our thoughts turn to bird watching. RS: Birds are easy to spot in everyday speech. A hierarchy in an org

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Weasel Words

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 9, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: May 12, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- advice for battling weasels of a wordy sort. RS: Weasels are small, nasty animals. Their reput

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Persuasion and Resistance

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of persuasion, from an expert. RS: Eric Knowles is a social psychologist at the University of Arkansas. He heads a laboratory group that recently held a Symposium o

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman'The Three Little Pigs'

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 18 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: April 21 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we look at the teaching of English to non-native speakers at younger and younger ages. RS: Members o

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--'Minority' and 'AHANA'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Has the word minority outgrown its usefulness? RS: Minority means less than half. In the United States, members of non-European racial and ethnic groups are generally referred to

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Pronouncing 'th'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- help for English learners who have trouble pronouncing words with the letters t-h. RS: Our friend Lida Baker joins us with a pronunciation lesson. She writes textbooks for Engli

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--New Words

INTRO: As long has language has existed, it has been in a constant state of change, and as long there have been dictionaries lexicographers have been trying to keep up with those changes. James Donahower reports on the flood of new words entering the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Wordtree Reverse Dictionary

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: October 3, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: October 6, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- The Wordtree. It's a reverse dictionary that, through a series of branchings, takes you

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--'Predicting New Words'

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: September 19, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: September 22, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success. RS: That's the title of a new

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Web Accessibility

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 22, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: August 25, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble has the week off. This week on Wordmaster -- making the Web more welcoming to the disabled. John Slatin is director of the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Grammar Lady: Only One You

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 29, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: September 1, 2002 MUSIC: Only You/The Platters AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- what to do when there's only one you. RS: We're talking abo

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Exceptional Verbs

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 15, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: August 18, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. With me this week on Wordmaster is our English teacher friend Lida Baker in Los Angeles, to talk about a few verbs

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Corporate Crime

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 1, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: August 4, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a timely accounting of some slang related to business fraud. BUSH: Every corporate offic

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--TOEFL

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: July 25, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: July 28, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- TOEFL tips! RS: Each year close to one million people around the world take the TOEFL -- t

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Getting a Job, Part 1: Resume

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: July 11, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: July 14, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster, advice on getting a job. RS: It's a question several listeners have asked us, so we turned to

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Medical Interpreters

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 27, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: June 30, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a special report about the linguistic challenges that health care workers face in the United