Word Wrangling with Terry Victor

Word on Word Action


Listen Later

A fine collection of words which are words about words have been gathered together for your wordy pleasuring.  It's a miscellany of rhetorical devices and the kind of flourishes that give figures of speech a good name.

Among other things Jane Austen does zeugma in the company of Flanders and Swann, Brutus uses synecdoche, and we kick some adverbs around in the company of Tom Swift. Abba falls prey to mondegreenery. And Humpty Dumpty is on cracking form. 


Word Wrangling is an independent production. We are always on the lookout for new ways with words. If you have any thoughts please get in touch.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Word Wrangling with Terry VictorBy Terry Victor