!Re: Nuke Redmond!

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Sat Apr 8 21:59:16 2000

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Doug Salot wrote:

> > There once was a daily or weekly vignette on NPR, in which the host, named
> > John Ciardi (pronounced CHARDY, tough I'm guessing at the spelling)
> > presented the entymology of commonly used linguistic constructs like this
> > example.

It is Ciardi. My favorite was the show where he discussed words like
"moron" and "idiot."
Received on Sat Apr 08 2000 - 21:59:16 BST