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  Vocabularies: ha-ha, fustanella, gadroon, semantics
  
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  Famous voices: Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, Boris Karloff
  
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  Popularized technicalities: dilemma, flamboyant, ascendant, hectic
  
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  “Putting the cart before the horse” (DN) / “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” (FM)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 15-Apr-1975

KALW-FM, 24-Jan-2003

KIPO 12-Jan-2006

KALW 20-Jan-2006

KWAX 21-Jan-2006

25:09, 23579, S

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  Vocabularies: dichotomy, pixilated, lycanthrope, nouse
  
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  Medical phraseology: mild pyrexia with choriza, presbyopia and stribismus, palpation of patella and bursitis, abdominal vesicles with herpes and varicella
  
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  Color blue: horse race for 3-year olds, blue peter, The Bluebird of Happiness, Bluestockings
  
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  “Come into the garden, Maude” (FM) / “Charity begins at home” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 22-Apr-1975

CE/DmP 00-01-08

KIPO 19-Jan-2006

KALW 27-Jan-2006

KWAX 28-Jan-2006

25:06, 23540, S

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  Vocabularies: meiosis, blastoderm, philippic, cybernetics
  
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  European proverbs: the chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion, three failures and a fire makes a Scotsman a fortune, the dogs bark but the caravan passes, when the sun rises owls feel uncomfortable
  
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  Epitaphs: Keats, Dorothy Parker, Danbrook, Dryden
  
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  “A rose is a rose is a rose” (DN) / “Let us now praise famous men and the fathers who begat us” (FM)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 29-Apr-1975

DmP 00-01-15

WOI-FM, 02-Feb-2003

KIPO 26-Jan-2006

KALW 10-Feb-2006

25:20, 23760, S

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  Vocabularies: pusillanimous, persiflage, polemic, pejorative
  
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  Odd man out: Charlton Mackeral, Jack Hargreaves, Mr. Tope, Bartholomew Strange
  
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  Origins and derivations: teddy bear, to steel one’s thunder
  
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  “The lady of the lamp” (FM) / “Sweet are the uses of adversity” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM 06-May-1975

DmP 00-01-22

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KWAX-FM, 156-FebAug-20038

25:089, 1767923587,, S

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RT #305

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  Vocabularies: panjandrum, tangram, dithyramb, kibosh
  
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  Poetry: Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, Shakespeare
  
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  Incomplete Remarks: Oscar Wilde, Sir Thomas More, Disraeli, Benjamin Franklin
  
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  “The grandeur that was Rome” (DN) / “Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt” (FM)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 23-Feb-2003

KIPO 02-Feb-2006

KALW 03-Feb-2006

25:08, 23572, S

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RT #306

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  Vocabularies: myriologue, waterbury, snickersnee, rantipole
  
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  Origins: laconic, galoshes
  
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  Dialect words: freckles, slate sizes, words of truce, left handed
  
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  “Pop goes the weasel” (FM) / “Hard words break no bones” (DN)
  

JL

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WOI-FM, 18-May-2003

KALW 10-Feb-2006

25:24, 23826, S

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RT #307

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  Vocabularies: zombie, iapp, smellie, euphory
  
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  Observations on Women: Kipling, Pope, George Meredith, Kipling
  
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  Words in common: fungi, contemporaries, all married King Georges, Pittman shorthand
  
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  “Double double toil and trouble” (DN) / “A woman’s work is never done” (FM)
  

JL

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DmP, 00-02-12

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KWAX-FM, 08-Mar-2003

24:56, 17533, S

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RT #308

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  Vocabularies: sycophant, fallallary, artifact, kazoo
  
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  Misquotations: pride goeth before destruction, chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, such stuff as dreams are made on, with the skin of my teeth
  
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  Inn Signs: The Green Man, The Rose and Crown, The Talbot, The Goat and Compasses
  
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  “What’s the good of a home if you’re never in it?” (FM) / “The moment I saw you” (DN)
  

JL

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WITF-FM, 20-May-1975

KIPO-16-Feb-2006

KALW 24-Feb-2006

KWAX 25-Feb-2006

25:12, 23640, S

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RT #309

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  Vocabularies: ecumenical, Gregory powder, belomancy, snip snap snorum
  
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  Insults: Sidney Smith of Macaulay, Charles Lamb of Coleridge, G. K. Chesterton of Thomas Hardy, Disraeli of Gladstone
  
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  Word differences: easy / simple, rich / wealthy, great / large, clever / intelligent
  
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  “Pirates of Penzance” (DN) / “He who hesitates is lost” (FM)
  

JL

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WITF-FM, 27-May-1975

WOI-FM, 22-Mar-2003

KALW-FM, 10-Oct-2003 KIPO-23-Feb-2006

KALW 24-Feb-2006

25:11, 23673, S

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RT #310

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  Vocabularies: hallelujah, charisma, egregious, spatterdash
  
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  Definitions: Dr. Johnson of a patron, Chesterton of a joke, George Bernard Shaw of assassination, Charles Lamb of puns
  
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  Origins: bean feast, lotus eater
  
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  “Goodbye Mr. Chips” (FM) / “A Time to be born and a time to die” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 29-Mar-2003

25:00, 17588, S

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RT #311

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  Vocabularies: quinsy, moratorium, orrery, analgesic
  
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  Remarkable remarks: Napier capturing Sind, Clive in parliamentary inquiry, Philip Sydney in battle, Isaac Newton to his dog
  
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  Origins: up the spout, skidaddle
  
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  “Coming events cast their shadows before” (DN) / “A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou” (FM)
  

JL

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KALW 10-Mar-2006

25:06, 23536,, S

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RT #312

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  Vocabularies: mnemonic, Parkinson’s Law, quintessence, gerrymander
  
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  Unfinished: beware of all enterprises that require…, the mass of men live lives of …, cauliflower is nothing but…, a man cannot have a pure mind who…
  
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  Origins and derivations: juggernaut, why should a red herrings be a fox’s friend
  
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  “Alons, enfants de la patrie, …” (FM) / “The female of the species is more deadly than the male” (DN)
  

JL

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KALW 17-Mar-2006

25:10, 23609, S

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RT #313

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  Vocabularies: pragmatic, quasar, shibboleth, syndrome
  
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  Origins and derivations: lackadaisical, manure
  
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  Differences: stand at ease/stand easy, perl/plain, AC/DC, organdy/tulle
  
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  “Ships that pass in the night” (DN) / “There is no fire without some smoke” (FM)
  

JL

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KALW 24-Mar-2006

KWAX 25-Mar-2006

25:02, 17609, S

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