Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share How We Approach Compound Words
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
How We Approach Compound Words
We're back to the mailbag this week with two great user questions:
What makes a compound word worthy of dictionary entry?
Is there one correct way to spell 'yay'?
Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.
Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.
Transcript available here.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
View all episodes
By Merriam-Webster, New England Public Media
4.9
482482 ratings
We're back to the mailbag this week with two great user questions:
What makes a compound word worthy of dictionary entry?
Is there one correct way to spell 'yay'?
Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.
Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.
Transcript available here.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
More shows like Word Matters
View all
TED Radio Hour
21,992 Listeners
Freakonomics Radio
32,082 Listeners
Hidden Brain
43,643 Listeners
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
2,839 Listeners
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
1,241 Listeners
The Allusionist
3,015 Listeners
Science Friday
6,339 Listeners
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
2,279 Listeners
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
641 Listeners
Short Wave
6,344 Listeners
No Stupid Questions
3,658 Listeners
People I (Mostly) Admire
2,112 Listeners
How to Be a Better Human
1,385 Listeners
Lexicon Valley
549 Listeners
The Economics of Everyday Things
1,649 Listeners