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  Vocabularies: pizzazz, girlcott, kreep, gigabit
  
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  Things in common: Tautological phrases, four freedoms, symptoms of Vitamin B-1 deficiency, all red
  
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  Shakespearean fragments: Macbeth, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Richard II
  
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  Differences: boondoggle / hornswoggle, impromptu / ex tempore, big banger / steady stater, jimjams / jitters
  
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  “I’m going to see a man about a dog” (FM) I’m going to see a Dan about a mog / “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” (DN) Was this the lunch that faced a thousand chips
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2002-Oct-24/23

KALW-FM, 31-Oct-2003

KWAX-FM, 02-Nov-2003

KIPO-FM, 28-Sep-2003

KALW-FM, 06-Oct-2006

27:14, 25538, S

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RT #342

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  Vocabularies: camp, ethos, kitsch, avant garde
  
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  National stereotypes: nation of actors (Italy), women govern it (US), they instinctively admire a man without talent but is modest about it (English), a press campaign of four months will convince them of any idiocy (Germany)
  
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  Differences: derisive/derisory, illegible/unreadable, meticulous/pernickity, delusion/illusion
  
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  Surnames: Baynes, Phillips, Frobisher, Wagstaff
  
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  “’Til the sands of the deserts grow cold” (DN) / “And so to bed” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 07-Nov-2003

KWAX-FM, 08-Nov-2003

KALW-FM, 07-Oct-2006

27:16, 25578, S

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RT #343

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  Vocabularies: pogonophobia, musophobia, clinophobia, triskidecaphobia, gymnophobia, aulophobia, parthenophobia, phobophobia
  
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  Emergencies: dog fight between a fox terrier and Afghan hound, a child has an attack of croupe, chewing gum on the front of a silk shirt, dancing partner gets a cramp down one leg
  
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  Australian terms: a duck’s dinner, to bat the breeze, go see Mrs. Murray, amen snorter
  
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  “We lost our little Hannah in a very painful manner” (FM)³ / “Every prospect pleases, only man is vile” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 12-Oct-2006

KALW-FM, 20-Oct-2006

KWAX-FM, 21-Oct-2006

27:14, 25540, S

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RT #344

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  Vocabularies: anabolic, cryogenic, bionic, hydroponic
  
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  Contrived commentaries: organ recital, a swan, a catherine wheel, a hammock
  
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  Etymological imports: orangutan, subpoena, harakiri, negligee
  
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  “A little touch of Harry in the night” (DN) / “None but the brave deserves the fair” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2002-Nov-14/13

KIPO-FM, 19-Oct-2006

KALW-FM, 27-Oct-2006

27:15, 25560, S

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RT #345

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  Vocabularies: chauvinism, micawberism, momism, hedonism
  
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  Origins and derivations: a fig for you sir, a question mark, a square person, a stickler over trifles
  
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  Coin a word: horserubbish/macinsop, ripe person, hand signal for “I’m Sorry”/charisn’tma, scorbe de beesties
  
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  “Hullo, hullo, who’s your lady friend” (FM) / “Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 05-Dec-2003

KIPO-FM, 26-Oct-2006

KALW-FM, 03-Nov-2006

KWAX-FM, 04-Nov-2006

27:16, 25564, S

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RT #346

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  Latinisms: ad hoc, apriori, prima facie, quid pro quo
  
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  Odd Man Out: stately, Longbourne, quinquireme, pistol
  
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  Poets: Tennyson, Keats, Francis Thompson, Rupert Brooke
  
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  “Honi soi qui mal e pense” (DN) / “Silent upon a peak in Darien” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 02-Nov-2006

KALW-FM, 10-Nov-2006

KWAX-FM, 11-Nov-2006

27:10, 25472, S

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RT #347

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  Vocabularies: kitkat, bloom, scumble, bravura
  
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  In Common: chess opening gambits, moths, pigeons, tempraments or humours
  
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  Unlikely Connections: Churchill novels, anagram, Ice Cream couldn’t be sold on Sunday, both written by Carroll/Dodson
  
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  “To travel hopefully is better than to arrive” (FM) To drivel hopefully is better than do a rave / “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (DN) A ruse by any ‘Archer’ name would sell a sweet
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2002-Nov-28/27

KIPO-FM, 09-Nov-2006

KALW-FM, 17-Nov-2006

26:55, 25245, S

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RT #348

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  Vocabularies: absquatulate, nidify, sniggle, transmogrify
  
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  Beliefs: nation of shopkeepers, Cinderella’s glass slippers, won on the playing fields of Eton, Eve gave Adam an apple
  
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  Literate Quotations: Somerset Maugham, Samuel Johnson, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Anthony Trollope
  
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  “If I were a bell I’d be ringing” (DN) / “Where are the snows of yesteryear” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 16-Nov-2006

KALW-FM, 24-Nov-2006

KWAX-FM, 25-Nov-2006

27:09, 25469, S

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RT #349

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  Vocabularies: embolism, placebo, hematoma, tachycardia
  
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  Occupational terms: bricklaying, upholstery, audio engineering, viticulture
  
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  Incomplete quotations: Pope, Goldsmith, Kipling, Shakespeare
  
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  “The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable” (FM) / “A storm in a teacup” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2002-Dec-12/11

KIPO-FM, 23-Nov-2006

KALW-FM, 01-Dec-2006

27:14, 25546, S

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RT #350

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  Vocabularies: rife, eponymous, froward, pusillanimous
  
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  Odd Man Out: wading birds, absolute terms, dog sounds in other languages, irregular plurals
  
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  Recitations: Walter Scott, Shelley, Marvel, Gray
  
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  “I’d gladly go from rags to riches” (DN) I sadly go from wrecks to rip-offs / “From the sublime to the ridiculous” (FM) From the sub-plum to the ranunculus
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 30-Nov-2006

KWAX-FM, 09-Dec-2006

27:12, 25511, S

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RT #351

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  Vocabularies: lucubration, appoception, polemics, sophistry
  
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  Corrections: poor Yorick, money is the root of all evil, he that agrees against his will, when Greek meets Greek
  
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  Tramps’ terminology: cackleberry, sling the guff, spend the night with Mrs. Greenfield, hay-burner
  
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  “There’s a breathless hush in the close tonight” (FM) There’s a breathe less harsh in the clothes tonight / “Two’s company, three’s a crowd” (DN) Tooth company frees a kraut
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2003-Jan-02, 27:01

KIPO-FM, 07-Dec-2006

KALW-FM, 15-Dec-2006

KWAX-FM, 16-Dec-2006

27:04, 25385, S

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RT #352

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  Vocabularies: proletensiousness, wiglomeration, insinuendo, beerage
  
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  Idiosyncratic poetry: Tennyson, Milton, Swinburne, Keats
  
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  Origins: your name is mud, teetotal, like billy-o, bandy words
  
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  “What shall we do with a drunken sailor” (DN) What shall we do with a shrunk azalea / “Fools who came to scoff remained to pray” (FM) Voles who came to scoff remained ‘tout près’
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 14-Dec-2006

KALW-FM, 22-Dec-2006

KWAX-FM, 23-Dec-2006

27:12, 25510, S

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“in winter”

RT #353

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  Vocabularies: ufologist, zilch, unk unks, cosmonette
  
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  Quotations About: Shakespeare, Whistler, Edward VII, Palmerston
  
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  Solecisms
  
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  “If you have tears prepare to shed them now” (FM) If you have tyres, prepare to shade them now / “A soft answer turneth away wrath” (DN) A swapped hamster burneth away cloth
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2003-Jan-09/08

KIPO-FM, 28-Dec-2006

KALW-FM, 04-Jan-2007

27:14, 25538, S

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