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Today's topics: Coretta Scott King, Super Bowls and Pizza, We will rock you by Queen, You bet versus I bet, Gonna, woulda, coulda, Speaking of which Words: Advocate Widow/ widower Delivery Seattle Seahawks Pittsburgh Steelers Plant Chicken wings Half
Today's topics: New Software, Brunch, Oprah's Book Club, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, How to End a Letter or Email, Can vs. Can't Some words from today's podcast: brunch Oprah Winfrey bestselling A Million Little Pieces talk show memoirs civil rights
Today's topics: Feeling under the weather, Common abbreviations, Using initials, Now vs. right now Words: To catch a cold e.g. = for example i.e. = that is etc. = et cetera RSVP = please respond/reply FYI = for your information ASAP = as soon as poss
Topics: McJobs; Roberts Rules of Order; in for a dime, in for a dollar; a police officers beat, could versus would, center versus centre Words: McJob low-prestige advancement dead end to be regulated service industry turnover to polish McMansion coun
Topics: Famous authors: Maya Angelou; Universal Studios; wise versus savvy versus clever; delicatessen; to end up versus to wind up Words: cage racism highly acclaimed to ban honorary degree ritual lecture circuit studio theme park ride set fa?ade wi
Topics: American Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and All the President's Men; Famous Songs Over There; to borrow versus to debit versus to lend versus to loan; using ago with since; ambivalence versus conflict Words: to cover implicated infor
Topics: American Authors - Erle Stanley Gardner and the Perry Mason TV Series; Boys Girls Clubs of America; who versus which versus that; It aint over till the fat lady sings; to go/be all in Words: detective self-taught pseudonym pulp magazine case
Topics: No-Tuition Colleges; the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial; crazy versus mad versus psycho versus mentally ill; using ed words as adjectives; lo and behold Words: tuition a handful of on campus ranch endowment philanthropy class trial anarchist to convict
Topics: Famous Songs: Kumbaya; Crater Lake National Park; free time versus spare time; at the end versus in the end; booking versus reservation Words: spiritual to pass down campfire calming effect to sway crater volcano lodge rim trail indigenous pi
Topics: The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Famous Authors: Anne Rice; to generate versus to create versus to make; a tad off target; run-on sentence Words: expedition corps to lay claim to navigable fur trapper to split up journal manifest destiny bicen
Topics: Famous Americans: Weird Al Yankovic; Alcoholics Anonymous; figure out versus realize; kind of; noun + --ee and --er Words: weird parody to make light of relevant alcoholic addicted anonymous to break an addiction sober support group to abstai
Topics: Taxes Americans pay; wedding/baby showers and gift registries; leverage, to dig, to guess versus to think versus to believe Words: property tax appraised value due utility sales tax income tax to throw (someone) a party wedding/bridal shower
Topics: Ask an American: private gun ownership; north of; compulsory versus mandatory versus obligatory; mayday Words: semiautomatic round to ban outlawed to arm social issue law-abiding hunting high heels part of the equation north of compulsory man
Topics: The Secret Service; tween culture; on versus upon; exclamations My God and Jesus Christ; evidence versus proof Words: currency to counterfeit agent to shield assassination bravery to lay (one's) life on the line tween buying power controversi
Topics: Famous Americans: Flannery OConnor; 60 Minutes; well-(something); red and blue states Words: misfit fanatic devout grotesque posthumous on the air prime time investigative journalism to catch (someone) off guard to go too far libel theme musi
Topics: Ask an American: civility; sour versus tart; (something) is king; thorough versus comprehensive Words: to get out in front tone of voice on the go slower-paced courtesy detrimental put off by captive audience to take up to give way to analogu
Topics: On the Waterfront; Famous Songs: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; bet versus wager versus gamble; U.S. versus U.S.A.; cant help (doing something) Words: waterfront mob union deed whistleblower to give away the ending uplifting slave to do (something
Topics: It's a Wonderful Life; Cape Cod; backward versus backwards; to agree with versus to agree to versus to agree on; howdy Words: unselfishness fraud to take (one's) anger out on (someone) to commit suicide guardian angel inspirational cape year-
Topics: Explaining TV show names; Mount McKinley and mountaineering; highest versus tallest; CEO versus CFO versus CIO Words: sitcom scrubs on the fringe widow weed trek mountaineering to climb peak route summit to stretch highest tallest CEO CFO CIO
Topics: Ask an American: Watching TV on the Internet; to search versus to look for versus to seek; pushing up daisies; do you have any idea? Words: dominant programming to turn to (something) as opposed to to cut across generational lines tech-savvy