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  Vocabularies: batata, ululate, sierra, erst
  
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  Differences: avant garde/avant courtier, bullate/bullace, charlok / charlotte, hubbub/hubblebubble
  
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  Poems: Ellawela? Wilcox, Edward Lear, Chesterton, Hemond
  

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  “A crown is no cure for the headache” (DN) / “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (FM)
  

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#236

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  Vocabularies: sternutation, midinette, fescue, codpiece
  
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  Death Valley, Kaaba, The Hanging Gardens, Fernando Po
  
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  Differences: complacence/complaisance, ligature/ligament, deprecate/depreciate, gombeen/gombroon
  

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  “Believe it or not” (FM) / “Blood is thicker than water” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 26-Aug-2005

25:28, 23881, “s”

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  Vocabularies: clone, infusoria, voodoo, humdinger
  
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  Authors: Swift, liliputians/brobdidnagians/laputa, big/little/silly, Esther Johnson/ Esther van Rummer
  
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  Imaginary Clubs: Pikestaff, Wild Horses, Hindleg, Smilers
  
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  Differences: osiery/ossuary, paladin/palanquin, polypetalus/polysepalus, lithotomy/lithotrity
  

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  “Toot toot Tootsie good-bye” (FM) / “Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 02-Sep-2005

27:34, 25851, “s”

#238

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  Vocabularies: redingote, felloe, clepsydra, backsheesh
  
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  Slang: hot blanketeer, odd come shortly, pew opener’s muscle, give a girl a green gown
  
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  Differences: prevaricate/procrastinate, cachalong/cachelot, iridescent/irridentist, LIFO/LILO
  
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  “Nor iron bars a cage” (DN) / “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease” (FM)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 09-Sep-2005

27:22, 25664, “s”

#239

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  Vocabularies: sciamachy, mavis, balderkin, eneurisis
  
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  Authors: Jane Austen, Lady deBurr/Elizabeth/Jane, Emma, Northanger Abbey
  
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  Origins: chancellor, dragoons, Quadrivium, tre- pol- pen-
  

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  “Where are the snows of yesteryear” (FM) / “The girl that I marry will have to be as soft and as pink as a nursery” (DN)
  

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KALW 16-Sep-2005

27:30, 25796, S

before decimalization

ABC

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  Vocabularies: repoussé, firkin, daguerrotype, bottomry
  
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  Authors: Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, swam the Hellespont, died in Greece from malaria
  
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  Words of movement: croquet, roman candle, fool’s mate, selling the dummy
  

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  “There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough hew them how we will” (DN) / “Don’t cross your bridges ‘til you come to them” (FM)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

WOI-FM, 15-Sep-2002

KIPO 15-Sep-2005?

KALW 23-Sep-2005

27:31, 25812, S

after decimalization

ABC #255

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  Vocabularies: auscultation, sabuless, ecru, methegline
  
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  Initials: fur., n.s., op., trs.
  
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  Odd Man Out: Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, A.A. Milne, burgundies
  
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  Doggy questions: dog days, dog’s nose, dog latin, blush like a black dog
  

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  “Remember that time is money” (FM) / “For the labourer is worthy of his hire” (DN)
  

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JL, (TS)

KALW-FM, 2002-Sep-27

KIPO 22-Sep-2005?

KALW 30-Sep-2005

27:35, 25867, S

after decimalization

ABC #256

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  Vocabularies: congé, fougasse, brambling, scaup
  
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  Author: P.G.Wodehouse, 1881, Reginald Jeeves, Lord Emsworth
  
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  Colloquialisms: kissing crust, hotel warming pan, John Company, indescribibles or inexpressibles
  

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  “Where are the snows of yesteryear” (DN) / “I feel no pain, dear mother, now” (FM)
  

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KIPO 29-Sep-2005?

KALW 07-Oct-2005

27:34, 25849, S

ABC #257

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  Vocabularies: fuligenous, chaparral, affiche, eldritch
  
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  Author: Samuel Pepys, Cambridge, his wife, Secretary of the Admiralty
  
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  Odd Man Out: ports/madeira, Keats/Bible, beef/veal, Ruskin/Buchan
  
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  Initials: FAO, i.h.p., Vis., frl.
  

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  “Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever” (FM) / “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM 19-Oct-2002

KIPO 06-Oct-2005

KALW 14-Oct-2005

27:32, 25814, S

ABC #258

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  Vocabularies: icosahedron, gunter, heaviside layer, interferometer
  
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  Inside Out: polygamy, sarong, plagiarize, optimist
  
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  Greek mythology: Athena’s birth, Prometheus, Danae, Judgment of Paris
  
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  Quotes: Byron, of the Black Prince at Crecy, of Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth I
  

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  “Oh what can ail thee, knight of arms” (FM) / “The buyer needs a hundred eyes” (DN)
  

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JL, (TS)

KIPO 13-Oct-2005

KALW 21-Oct-2005

KWAX 22-Oct-2005

KXOT 03-May-2008

25:05, 23517, S

ABC #259

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  Vocabularies: martello, trope, stithy, copula
  
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  “In” words: in flagrante delicto, in partibus, in puris naturalibis, in petto
  
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  Origins and Derivations: etiquette, Grub Street, “you are chaffing me,” one-eyed steak
  

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  “Honesty is the best policy” (DN) / “Full blown poppies overcharged with rain, decline the head and drooping kiss the plain” (FM)
  

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JL, (TS)

WITF-FM, 14-Jan-1975

KIPO 20-Oct-2005

KALW 28-Oct-2005

KWAX 29-Oct-2005

KX)T 10-May-2008

25:09, 23589, S

ABC #262

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  Vocabularies: jacobus, fiddley, dimity, pudsy
  
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  Who/What Was: Grip, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Captain Nemo, Mrs. Thrael (sp?)
  
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  Dress or Clothing: weepers, antigropelos, shako, pea jacket
  
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  “Fine feathers make fine birds” (FM) / “Let us cling to our legends, sir” (DN)
  

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JL, (TS)

WITF-FM, 21-Jan-1975

KWAX-FM 2002-Nov-09

KIPO 27-Oct-2005

KALW 04-Nov-2005

KWAX 05-Nov-2005

25:01, 23466, S

ABC #260

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  Vocabularies: frangipani, disembogue, lapicide, bum bailiff
  
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  Origins and Derivations: mind your p’s and q’s, three sheets in the wind, to win hands down, to eat humble pie
  
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  Spelt alike but differing meanings: gammon, chase, maroon, hobby
  
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  “Only connect” (DN) / “The son and heir of a mongrel bitch” (FM)
  

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JL, (TS)

WITF-FM, 26-Jan-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Nov-16

KIPO 03-Nov-2005

KALW 11-Nov-2005

KWAX 12-Nov-2005

25:05, 23529, S

ABC

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  Vocabularies: pinfold, Hotchkiss, jalousie, larrop
  
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  Author of the week: Lawrence Stern and Tristram Shandy
  
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  Saints: St. Cyr, St. Gotthard, St. Cecilia, St. Lubbock
  
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  Tools of the trade: sphygmomanometer, tailings dam, pointillism, couch
  
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  “One good turn deserves another” (FM) / “The thousand natural shocks the flesh is heir to” (DN)
  

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JL, (TS)

WITF-FM, 4-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Nov-23

KIPO 10-Nov-2005

KALW 18-Nov-2005

KWAX 19-Nov-2005

25:09, 23586, S

ABC #263

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  Vocabularies: antipasto, knout, hoplite, apparatchik
  
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  Odd man out: dogs, religious sects, puddings, astronomical bodies
  
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  Olds: Old Glory, Old Dominion, Old Man of the Mountains, Old Bill
  
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  Shakepearean rulers: Orsino Duke of Illyria, County Paris, Theseus Duke of Athens, Thane of Fife and his wife
  

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  “Even lovers find their peace at last” (DN) / “Make me an offer” (FM)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

WITF-FM 11-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM 2002-Nov-30

KIPO 17-Nov-2005

KALW 25-Nov-2005

KWAX 26-Nov-2005

25:02, 23474, S

ABC #264

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  Vocabularies: demiurge, gigmanity, gromwell, hype
  
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  Inside Out Definitions: oats, middle age, marriage, understudy
  
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  Derivations: white night, borough English, wool sack, Vinland
  

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  “A rose red city half as old as time” (FM) / “De mortuis nil nisi bunkam” (DN)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

WITF-FM, 18-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Dec-07

KIPO 24-Nov-2005

KALW 02-Dec-2005

KWAX 03-Dec-2005

25:08, 23569, S

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ABC #265

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  Vocabularies: wombling, gasparghoul, pollywog, gyrovagua
  
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  “Muffled cats catch no mice”, “The Bishop has put his foot in it”, “to hear as a hog in harvest time”, “never wear a brown hat in Friesland”
  
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  Odd man out: nautical terms, international phonetic alphabet, parts of a horse, roses
  

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  “The time is out of joint” (DN) / “Remember that time is money” (FM)
  

JL

PM, (TS)

WITF-FM 25-Feb-1975

KALW-FM, 2002-Dec-13

KIPO 01-Dec-2005

KALW 09-Dec-2005

KWAX 10-Dec-2005

25:05, 23518 KB, S

ABC #268

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  Vocabularies: expurgifaction, borborygm, harpress, haboob
  
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  Nouns of assembly: kindle of kittens, fessnynge of ferrets, a sleuth of bears, charm of goldfinches
  
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  Death: Aeschylus, Francis Bacon, Edward IV’s brother George, Belle Elmore
  
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  “It’s a long lane that has no turning” (FM) / “A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 04-Mar-1975

KALW-FM, 2002-Dec-20

KIPO 08-Dec-2005

KALW 16-Dec-2005

KWAX 17-Dec-2005

24:59, 23437, S

ABC #266

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  Vocabularies: widdishins, embracery, treacler, blobbing
  
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  Misquotations: Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder”, Donne’s Devotions, Gray’s “Elegy”, Coleridge “Kubla Khan”
  
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  Differences: shillyshally dillydally, hocuspocus hankypanky, hodgepodge higgledypigglety, nambypamby niminypiminy
  
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  Royal remarks: Queen Victoria vs. Gladstone, Henry VIII vs. Cranmer, Henry II vs. Thomas a Becket, George II vs. Wolfe
  
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  “They tried to tell us we’re too young” (DN) / “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (FM)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 18-Mar-1975

WOI-FM, 22-Dec-2002

KIPO 15-Dec-2005

KALW 23-Dec-2005

KWAX 24-Dec-2005

25:07, 23548, S

ABC #269

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  Vocabularies: nuncheon, mackninny, jokee, moxa
  
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  Differences: piebald and skewbald, prone and supine, flotsam and jetsam, spic and span
  
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  Origins and derivations: Plantagenet, constable, bonfire, daisy
  
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  “If music be the food of love, play on” (FM) / “Charity shall cover the multitude of sins” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 25-Mar-1975

KIPO 22-Dec-2005

KALW 30-Dec-2005

25:04, 23513, S

ABC #270

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  Vocabularies: pattypan, porbeagle, unking, couvade
  
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  Unfamiliar phrases: the black ox has trodden on your foot, to stand upon one’s pantopples, out of all scotch and notch, all the Tracys have the wind in their faces
  
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  Etymological imports: bosh, ketchup, slogan, booby
  
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  “Parting is such sweet sorrow” (FM) / “There is no accounting for taste” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 01-Apr-1975

KWAX-FM, 2003-Jan-11

KIPO 29-Dec-2005

KALW 06-Jan-2006

KWAX 07-Jan-2006

25:07, 23548, S

ABC #271

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  Vocabularies: cabless, to google, surpeach, marowski
  
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  Misquotations: Blake’s “The Tyger”, Coleridge’s “The Ancient Mariner”, Longfellow’s “Song of Life”, Thomas Hood’s “I Remember”
  
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  Origins and derivations: flibbertygibbet, balderdash, tuxedo, sideburn
  
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  “Our antagonist is our helper” (DN) / “Deceits of the world, the flesh and the Devil” (FM)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 08-Apr-1975

KIPO 05-Jan-2006

KALW 13-Jan-2006

KWAX 14-Jan-2006

25:07, 23548, S

“Christmas edition”

US rebroadcast out of order in Christmas week

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  Vocabularies: bohea, degustation, ampulla, rotgut
  
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  Inside out definitions: gravity, Hollywood, marriage, opera
  
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  Odd man out: fruits, cookbook authors, animals, Loire wines
  
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  Seasonal words: the waits, Hogmanay, mince pies, the boar’s head
  

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  “A good example is the best sermon” (DN) / “Stand a little less between me and the sun” (FM)
  

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JL, (TS)

2003-Jan-04

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