Laughter leads to the tragicomic parable of the comedian. But what has Fanny Adams got to do with it?

This episode of Word Wrangling contains random Spoonerisms and dastardly puns.

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.

To a lot of grammar-minded pedants the apostrophe is the be all and end all. Should we care what they think? Anyway, the apostrophe is a here today and gone tomorrow it of punctuation, isn't it? Would you prefer 'is not it"? 

The apostrophocalypse is not the end of the world. But this edition of Word Wrangling does give it a good going over.

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Colin Chambers is the editor and compiler of the upcoming Methuen Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre. What a thoroughly engaging man he is! 

This interview with Terry Victor is less about wrangling words and more to do with the dogged enthusiasm and ambitions required to produce a major reference work - with a little help from some famous friends.

If you have any interest in theatre this is probably the podcast episode for you...

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.

This is the podcast in which lexicographer Terry Victor fiddles with verbiage until, perhaps, an errant thread of vocabulary unravels. Who knows if today’s plunge in the wordage pool might leave the hand-knitted swimming trunks of English hanging slightly askew...
The life and times of Quid Pro Quo, the hidden origins of minding your Ps and Qs, a few bad jokes and some serious quidnuncishness. 
Come on in.

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.

There's a bee in  the word wrangling bonnet. Several bees. Some are aeronautically improbable, some for the glory (and the cash). Others are just  there for the buzz.

This episode of Word Wrangling is focussed mainly on an American cultural event and contains inoffensive words that you have never heard of. 

If you care about bees this episode is for you. 

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.

A chat with slang lexicographer and author Tom Dalzell. This is the first time an actual person has been Word Wrangled and it was an absolute privilege to have the man who is known as 'slangman' visit the podcastle.
Tom Dalzell was at home in Berkeley, California and Terry Victor zoomed in from South Wales.
Their conversation is full of mischief: two friends, surrounded by books, playing on the swings and roundabouts of language.
Tom wrote Flappers 2 Rappers, The Slang of Sin, Modern American Slang, Damn the Man!, Slang of Poker and Vietnam Slang.
Together, Tom and Terry created the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Sex Slang and Vice Slang. 
It's a rich mix.

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.

A spellbinding hotchpotch of magic words from Abracadaba to Zim Zala Bim, in the company of James Bond, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Mozart, Wicked, DC Comics and a glove puppet. The episode contains the only truly effective magic word you will ever need!

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.

Around the world World Book Day  arrives in April - except in the UK and Ireland. Stir in a peppering of Roald Dahl, a dragon or two and the fact that Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day (except that they didn't) and what you have is a pot being stirred into a rich stew of tasty Word Wrangling.

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Why are some words considered to be 'bad' or 'not nice'? What did those words ever do to upset you?

This episode of Word Wrangling manages to avoid content that may upset the overly sensitive listener,  whilst questioning the outlaw status of some taboo vocabulary. It wasn't easy. 

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I have personally wrangled and curated this short, nostalgic lexicon of the zeitgeitiest...

Some modish words for modern people compiled by someone who may have had a fleeting moment of cool way back in the 1970s. Or not. It’s hard to remember. However, if you are or have ever been stylish and attractive, up-to-date, awesome or admired then these words that I wrangle may be yours.

Was I ever too cool for school? Did I surf the zeitgeist? Did you?

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