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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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Responding to 9/11 survivors’ suit, U.S. judge rules Iran abetted attacks

A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Iran was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Among the thousands killed in the terrorist strikes ...

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Ever wonder what it’s like to be a Dumpster diver? Maybe not, but you kind of are now, aren’t you? Metropolis ...

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Ad links MF Global failure with Obama economic policy

An online political ad attempts to link MF Global’s failure under Jon Corzine’s leadership with the Obama administration̵ ...

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14th Police District: IPhone stolen from bus passenger

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New Jersey man gets jail time for Hurrican Katrina scam

A Newark, N.J. man is headed to prison for scamming more then $20,000 in Hurricane Katrina relief funds. David Kollie was convicte ...

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To honor fallen officers, police urge a touch of blue in holiday displays

Pennsylvania State Police are asking that a blue light bee added to home holiday displays to honor all officers killed in the line of dut ...

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Daily News sports columnist retires, Deadspin says it’s over molestation allegations

Deadspin is reporting longtime Daily News columnist Bill Conlin has resigned from his ...

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Orchestra, ‘American Idol’ finalist will perform Sixers National Anthem

Considering the owners are new and a month of the season was lopped off during labor negotiations, the Sixers have an awful lot going on. ...

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Corbett signs Pennsylvania Megan’s Law expansion

More than a month after former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child molestation charges, a new law is ...

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Nicetown CDC: Historical designation at Wayne Junction could spur growth

The name of the company is escaping her at the moment, but Nettie Boykin can still remember the sequence of steps involved in the job she ...

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Judge overturns ‘sex for tickets’ conviction

Susan Finkelstein is not an attempted prostitute. So says her lawyer, who announced today a judge has overturned Finkelstein’ ...

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Former Phillies GM returns to the team as a consultant

Last year it was Cliff Lee, now it’s Ed Wade. The Phillies are welcoming back another former teammate, and this time its a p ...

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Artist seeks more community input for Chelten Avenue mural inspiration

A new community mural at 310 W. Chelten Ave., which is currently the site of a Christian bookstore, is one step closer to a design after ...

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Parental postmortems on the rehearsal, and dread for a snowy dawn

About midnight that night, the Levys and O’Mearas each lay in their hotel rooms in Old City. Each husband and wife stared into the ...

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New York anti-fracking activists put Dimock, Pa. on national map

The little Pennsylvania town of Dimock has become the symbolic front line of the fightover natural gas drilling. It’s known far and ...

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