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Visit MOZY.com.com. You're listening to a way with words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. You know, Grant, you and I read a lot of email newsletters, right?

And there's one that I keep pressing on other people who are interested in language, and that

is Michael Quinnion's e-newsletter. I know you read it every week. I do the same thing. I treat it like a religious

tract. I'm like, you must read this. It will change your life. You do? Yeah. Well, because people, the world is filled

with bad information about language.

Michael, who is British, consistently gets it right, doesn't he?

He is great. He is a dogged etymologyologist there at WorldwideWords.org.

For example, in a recent newsletter, I learned the word carrot mobbing which you probably already know

that's a kind of social activism where people shop at a small business specially chosen for its good environmental practices, carrot mobbing.

So it has a lot of information like that in short digestible pieces and at the very end he offers this little

Lagnap a little treat which is a few headlines that were and bloopers and that

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