Word Wrangling with Terry Victor

Welcome to a special – no! – exceptional episode of the ongoing Word Wrangling podcast.  From Dream to Tempest, from Cave Paintings to Star Wars, these are the voyages of narration on the Sea of Story.

Word Wrangling welcomes the author and storyteller Leon Conrad to the podcastle. Furniture is spun, a new word (pre-loved but new to me) is explored. There's even an uncredited joke nicked from Rocky Horror. Oh, the stories we could tell!

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

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.

Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.

When you read you begin with - A - B - C
When you sing you begin with DO - RE – MI

When you wrangle Do-Re-Mi the very beginning is a long long time ago.

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 episode of Word Wrangling follows some unlikely links and relationships though the U and non-U undergrowth of 20th century snobbery. It's a class thing.

What connects James Bond to Brief Encounter? Why does it matter? Who is Strix?

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 brief excursion into the small world of all things bijou and petty. 

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.

The official word for the quirk of our language that I have lighted on today is reduplicative. 

This episode of Word Wrangling goes from nursery rhymes to a murderous cult, Bob Dylan, Donovan  and Queen get quoted,  There's a bit of Lewis Carroll, Gilbert & Sullivan and Shakespeare in the mix. And Lady Gaga.

Something to annoy everyone.

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.

Welcome to the 100th weekly episode of Word Wrangling! It's time to tease, tempt and tantalise those words that topple and tipple on the tip of my  tongue. Let's have a game of Twister  - well, Tongue Twister. 

This is an especially skewed edition dedicated to the challenges of aural/oral pleasure. 

By the by, there is an unjustified mention of Biggie Smalls towards the end. It's a South Park thing.

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.

Strike is a busy, well-muscled word; seemingly formed of conflict, its early gentility all but forgotten. Strike is a word that strolls through our language and then sticks out a sneaky foot to trip us up.

So, that's where this episode of Word Wrangling is heading: out on strike. Pausing, perhaps,  to picket, in  company with the likes of Ivor Biggun and Noam Chomsky. Which side are you on? 

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 zeds in a bed adventures of the English language.  A proper charm bracelet of finely wrangled words that glint and sizzle.

It's time to catch  some zzzz....

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Oi! The referee needs glasses. Should’ve gone to Specsavers.

Facts, fictions, etymologies and bifocal eyeglasses!  What a spectacle. 

Endangered creatures, assassination and an 8-bit computer. That's a pair of spectacles.

Wrangling the words we wear on our noses. You may be surprised. 

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From Cadbury's 'a finger of fudge' to the Tory Party, by way of Augustus Gloop, Walter Mitty, sludge metal, and some below the belt slang.... There's more to fudge than I imagined. From the ministry of magic all the way back to well before 1066.

 Lyrical illustrations for this episode are borrowed from Anthony Newley, Lesley Bricusse, and Danny Elfman. And there are some other fine name drops.

Fudgadelic!

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.