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  Vocubularies: tintinnabulation, obloquy, throe, chimera
  
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  Origins and Derivations: fly in the ointment, tabby cat, rain cats and dogs, pandemonium
  
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  Unwanted Claims to Fame: Dr. Crippen, William Huskerson MP, Frederick Louis son of George II, Thomas Montague 4^th Earl of Salisbury
  
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  “April in Paris”(DN) / “The more haste the less speed” (FM)
  

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KWAX-FM, 26-Apr-2003

KIPO 23-Mar-2006

KALW 31-Mar-2006

27:13, 25529, S

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RT #315

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  Vocabularies: incubus, supererogation, machination, fustian
  
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  Derivations: Cammiknickers, penison, schemozzle, tam o’shanter
  
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  Technical terms: V2 rotate, oyer terminer, finish a rabbet with a badger, labiator labia superiores nasae
  
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  “I wouldn’t leave my little wooden hut for you” (FM) / “He who hesitates is lost” (DN)
  

JL

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MH, 02-05-02, 27:04

KWAX-FM, 03-May-2003

KIPO 30-Mar-2006

KALW 07-Apr-2006

KWAX 08-Apr-2006

27:16, 25567, S

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RT #316

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  Vocabularies: Bolus, Gibbous, Horripilation, Soroptimist
  
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  Parliamentary Invective: Daniel O’Connell/Robert Peel, Disraeli/Palmerston, Lloyd George/Chamberlain, Lord Salisbury/Randolph Churchill the Elder
  
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  Unlikely Connections: Out Of Work, Trollope And Pillar Box, Both Had A Wooden Leg, Died Of Laughter Seeing An Ass Eat A Plate Of Figs
  
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  “You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too” (DN) You Can’t Advocate And Eat At Two / “Here We Come Gathering Nuts In May On A Cold And Frosty Morning” (FM) High Wycombe: Gathering Newts In May On A Cold And Frosty Morning
  

JL

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MH, 02-05-09, 27:02

KWAX-FM, 10-May-2003

KIPO 30-Mar-2006

KALW 14-Apr-2006

KWAX 15-Apr-2006

27:14, 25533, S

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RT #317

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  Vocabularies: Macabre, jobation, fiasco, fontanelle
  
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  Pros/Cons of womenkind: Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, Ambrose Bierce, Dr. Johnson
  
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  Origins and derivations: adams apple, paraphenalia, shillyshally, to take a dekko
  
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  “A snapper up of unconsidered trifles” (FM) / “To innovate is not to reform” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 17-May-2003 KIPO 13-Apr-2006

KALW 21-Apr-2006

KWAX 22-Apr-2006

27:16, 25565, S,

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RT #318

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  Vocabularies: Saturnalia, Innumerate, Inchoate, Nephelococcitia
  
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  Confessions: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
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  Origins: you can whistle for it, the fourth estate, seventh heaven, abracadabra
  
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  “Damn With Faint Praise” (DN) Doom With Quaint Sprays / “Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life At Last I’ve Found You” (FM) Ah Sweet Mr. Ray Of Leith At Last I’ve Phoned You
  

JL

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KIPO 05-May-2006

KALW --

KWAX 29-Apr-2006

27:20, 25627, S

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RT #319

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  Vocabularies: Recherche, schizophrenic, saturnine, surrogate
  
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  Literary clues: Goldsmith, Dickens, Sterne, Mary Shelley
  
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  Difficult pronouncements: Thurber, Sam Goldwyn, Benchley, Fidel Castro
  
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  “The game is up” (FM) / “A nightingale in the sycamore” (DN)
  

JL

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KALW --

27:17, 25594, S

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RT #320

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  Vocabularies: supercilious, eukase, sesquipedalian, dialectic
  
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  Poetry: we buried him darkly, a flask of wine a book of verse and thou, and chill with early showers, the very houses seem asleep
  
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  International Dishes
  
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  “An Infinite Capacity For Taking Pains” (DN) / “Hail To Thee Blythe Spirit, Bird Thou Never Wirt” (FM)
  

JL

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MH, 02-06-06

KWAX-FM, 07-Jun-2003

KIPO 04-May-2006

KALW --

KWAX 13-May-2006

27:17, 25585, S

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RT #321

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  Vocabularies: titubant, psychosomatic, wowzer, scrim
  
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  Origins and derivations: down in the dumps, fan mail, to gird up one’s loins, marzipan
  
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  Household hints: handkerchiefs smelling like violets, pincushion, earwig trap, keeping flying insects away
  
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  “Chacun a son gout” (FM) / “Nothing succeeds like success” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 14-Jun-2003

KIPO 11-May-2006

KALW 19-May-2006

27:13, 25521, S

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RT #322

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  Vocabularies: turpitude, beeswing, limbo, hubris
  
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  Differences: sardonic/ironic, alligator/crocodile, tonsils/adenoids, pyknic/aesthenic
  
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  Common surnames: Chapman, Pettigrew, Challoner, Turnbull
  
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  “How are the mighty fallen” (DN) / “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one” (FM)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 21-Jun-2003

KIPO 18-May-2006

KALW 26-May-2006

27:12, 25515, S

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RT #323

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  Vocabularies: Homophone, casuistry, ineffable, idiosyncrasy
  
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  American aphorisms: Calvin Coolidge, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Henry Ford I
  
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  Vocational verbs: to oscultate/phlebotomize/marsupialize, to reach/gyve/veer, to traverse/confess and avoid/pray attailies. to block out/black out/buck and wing
  
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  “Kind hearts are more than coronets” (FM) / “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” (DN)
  

JL

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KIPO 25-May-2006

KALW 02-Jun-2006

KWAX 03-Jun-2006

27:14, 25541, S

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RT #324

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  Vocabularies: Bumble Puppy, placebo, ichneumon, kismet
  
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  Origins and derivations: apple pie bed, under the auspices of, bowler hat, ragtime
  
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  Misquotations: mountain to Mohammed, first catch your hare, a poor thing sir, here we go gathering nuts in May
  
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  “Cast thy bread upon the waters” (DN) / “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” (FM)
  

JL

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KIPO 01-Jun-2006

KALW 09-Jun-2006

KWAX 10-Jun-2006

27:15, 25551, S

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RT #325

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  Vocabularies: Esoteric, kickshaw, nugatory, parvenue
  
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  Distinctive definitions: atheist, communist, fanatic, a baby
  
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  Differences: tactics/strategy, china/porcelain, hip/haw, hay/straw
  
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  “Never, never, never, never, never” (FM) / “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 12-Jul-2003

KIPO 08-Jun-2006

KALW 16-Jun-2006

27:15, 25552, S

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RT #326

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  Vocabularies: miasma, empathy, hegemony, iddy-umpty
  
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  Comparisons are odorous, I own the soft impeachment, Them’s my sentiments, when found make a note of it
  
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  Household hints: how to clean a bowler hat, a compress of abscess or carbuncle, how to renovate a tired umbrella, find out a leak of sewer gas
  
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  “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” (DN) / “Beggars cannot be choosers” (FM)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 26-Jul-2003

KIPO 22-Jun-2006

KALW 30-Jun-2006

27:17, 25587, S

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