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  Vocabularies: pithecantrope, tetterwort, proa, belcher
  
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  Odds and Ends: next of kin, Provos, Pink Un, Jumbo
  
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  Flower names: dahlia, dandelion, gladiolus, cowslip
  
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  “What are the wild waves saying” (DN)/ “Is your journey really necessary” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 06-May-2005

25:53, 24272, “s”

#221

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  Vocabularies: jocko, pintado, sepulchre, barm
  
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  Origins and Derivations: cenotaph, nip in the bud, Lido, stalemate
  
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  Quotations: Tale of Two Cities, Whistler to Oscar Wilde, Wilde entering America, Henry VIII about Anne of Cleves
  
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  ”How to win friends and influence people” (FM) / “Will wonders never cease” (DN)/
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 13-May-2005

25:53, 24278, “s”

#222

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  Vocabularies: ruddock, runcible spoon, toxsophila, corroboree
  
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  Odd Men Out: women authors’ books, Pilgrim’s Progress, Dickens’ characters, poets laureate
  
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  Odds and Ends: goatsucker, glowworm/slowworm, katydid, put a monkey
  
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  “My courage and my skill, to him that can get it” (DN)/ “Drink to me only with thine eyes” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 20-May-2005

25:54, 24293, “s”

#223

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  Vocabularies: armageddon, slivovitz, bravo, phillumenist
  
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  Who/Why/Where/What: Orwell’s Animal Farm, veteran car/vintage car, Coleridge’s Kublai Khan, Tess of the D’Ubervilles
  
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  Nicknames and Initials: ETA, Tube Alloys/Manhattan Project, Old Bailey, Vinegar Joe
  
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  “The best laid schemes of mice and men…” (FM) / “Your money or your life” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 27-May-2005

26:01, 24393, “s”

#224

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  Vocabularies: licit, gallopade, tawse, disembosom
  
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  Odds and Ends of Mythology: Ares, Allicto/Megira / Tisiphone, Acis and Pygmalion, Hermes
  
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  Grand Questions: Grand Tour, Grand Prix, Grand Corniche, Grand Old Man (Gladstone)
  
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  “Actions speak louder than words” (DN) / “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 03-Jun-2005

25:56, 24328, “s”

#225

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  Vocabularies: junta, vina, fingerling, rubbadub
  
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  Moon questions: moon calf, moonlight flit, moon’s men, elephant in the moon
  
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  Who, what, why: snark, watteau bodice, Malagasy Republic, Eric Blair in 1984
  
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  “Anyone for Tennis?” (FM) / “Here today, gone tomorrow” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 10-Jun-2005

25:55, 24298, “s”

#226

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  Vocabularies: tippy, whinstone, stiver, caseous
  
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  City titles: city of David, auld Reekie, city of Saints, cities of the plain
  
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  Origins and derivations: to swap horses in midstream, morris dance, to square the circle, to turn turtle
  

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  “A new broom sweeps clean” (DN) / “An ill favoured thing, sir, but mine own” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 17-Jun-2005

25:53, 24276, “s”

#227

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  Vocabularies: coloury, murex, hackery, annulate
  
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  Names: Potipher’s wife, Johnny come lately, U Noo, Molly Bloom
  
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  Butchered verse: Casabianca, Excelsior, I Wandered lonely as a cloud, To virgins (Herrick)
  
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  Odd Men Out: Ratty, The Thin Man, Journal of the Plague Year, Browning
  
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  “I do like to be beside the seaside” (FM) / “A happy issue out of all their afflictions” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KWAX 24-Jun-2005

25:51, 24248, “s”

#228

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  Vocabularies: fimbriated, jemadar, logogram, naiad
  
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  Odds and Ends: unpersons, Guinea Pig Club, regicides, Red Dean
  
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  Altered Verses: Macaulay, William Godwin, Richard Lovelace, Charles Kingsley
  
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  “History is bunk” (DN)/ “Take it from here” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 01-Jul-2005

25:46, 24171, “s”

Could be missing episode or series break here; 2 DN’s in a row

#229

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  Vocabularies: pittite, avadavat, scaldino, sinciput
  
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  G.B. Shaw characters: Captain Shotover, King Magnus, Dubedad, Andrew Undershaft
  
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  Mythology: Polyphemus, Cerberus, Scylla and Charybdis, Pythian Games
  
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  “Up, up, my friend and quit your books” (DN) / “One good turn deserves another” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KWAX 09-Jul-2005

25:46, 24166, “s”

#230

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  Vocabularies: anopheles, medicaster, baccalaureate, tucum
  
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  Sayings: sent up the river, jerkwater town, Serbonian Bog, barmy on the crumpet
  
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  Who, what, why: Aunt Jerbiska, Against a Grocer, Julia’s leg, the oysters
  
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  Odd Rhymes: Tanglewood Tales, Daedalus and Icarus, the centaurs, Prometheus
  
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  “The lady is a tramp” (FM) / “Women and elephants never forget” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 15-Jul-2005

25:47, 24173, “s”

#231

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  Vocabularies: suasion, sexillion, polity, canoodle
  
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  Characters: Edward Bear, Mrs. Hudson, Colin Shepherd, Bathsheba Everdeen
  
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  Definitions and derivations: klaxon, corset, plagiarism, sputnik
  
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  Who, why, what: Kipling, Thackeray, Poe, Beerbohm
  
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  “Truth is stranger than fiction” (DN) / “And so to bed” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 22-Jul-2005

25:53, 24276, “s”

#232

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  Vocabularies: aurochs, bombazine, datura, mumchance
  
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  Abbreviations: prox.acc., B.Th.U., stg, 12mo.,
  
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  Odd Man Out: Wuthering Heights, City of Dreadful Night, The Hound of Heaven, Peter Simple
  
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  Nouns of Multitude: murmuration of starlings, panel of jurymen, batch of bread, posse of sheriff’s officers
  
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  “Appetite comes with eating” (FM) / “The two oldest professions in the world, ruined by amateurs” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 29-Jul-2005

27:38, 25914, “s”

#233

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  Vocabularies: scrimshaw, pelota, cabochon, tigon
  
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  Author of the week: Robert Browning’s “Pippa’s Passing”, songs changed people to the good, “Sordello”, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
  
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  Differences: parasang/parasite, loricate/lorikeet, factitious/fictitious, presumptive/presumptuous
  
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  “You must take the rough with the smooth” (DN) / “Half a loaf is better than no bread” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 05-Aug-2005

25:20, 23758, “s”

#234

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  Vocabularies: suable, troat, cenozoic, interosculate
  
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  Author of the week: G.K. Chesterton and Flying Inn, The Old Ship, The Man who was Thursday, Father Brown’s innocence
  
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  Nouns of movement: Entrechat, telemark, caracole, abseil
  
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  Previous line of Poetry: Byron, Cowper, Wordsworth, Gilbert
  
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  “To err is human, to forgive is divine” (FM) / “Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 12-Aug-2005

25:27, 23869, “s”