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Welcome to another edition of the Language Headlines Mini-Cast from Away With Words.

I'm Grant Barrett. Ever since it started looking like Barack Obama was more than a long shot for his party's nomination.

Polsters and pundits have been talking about the Bradley effect.

It's when polls show a black political candidate way out in front and yet when the

votes are cast the black candidate barely wins or

doesn't even win at all. As William Sapphire writes in the New York Times the

expression comes from Tom Bradley's loss of the governorship of California in 1982.

Then, Poles predicted that he would win, but in fact he lost by a small margin.

Many people at the time felt that Bradley, who was black, lost because hidden racist wouldn't admit to pollsters their true intentions.

Also in the campaign coverage is an ongoing discussion of bilingual education. Is it better to teach immigrant

children only in English or should we teach them in a language they already know? That's the premise

of a debate on the New York Times Education Watch blog.

The presidential candidates' views come under some scrutiny by a couple of experts,

but most interesting are the reader comments.

One wrote, I am struck by how much the debate about the quantity of English in the classroom quickly devolves from a sensible search for the best strategy to an ideological war that produces some very silly teaching strategies.

And speaking of campaigns, ever heard of the word fubsy?

Well British dictionary publisher Collins is threatening to cut that and other archaic words

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