Roy Blount Jr. Slings Southern Slang (minicast) - 15 Oct. 2009

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🗓️ 15 October 2009

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Humorist Roy Blount Jr. stops by to try his hand at a slang quiz specifically about Southernisms. Blount, who is president of the Authors Guild, also joined Grant for a wide-ranging conversation about such topics as the controversy over writers' rights and the Amazon Kindle 2. Listen here. http://www.waywordradio.org/a-conversation-with-roy-blount-jr/ -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	Humorist Roy Blunt Jr. joined us earlier this year to play our slang quiz.
0:56.0	I had great fun in trying to come up with some southernisms that might stump him.
1:00.1	Let's hear how he did.
1:02.2	And today we're welcoming a special guest to be our contestant,
1:04.8	he's Roy Blunt Jr.
1:06.7	Roy is a regular panelist on NPR's popular quiz show,
1:09.9	Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:11.3	And he's recently written, get this,
1:13.7	a book about language.
1:15.4	It's called Alphabet Juice.
1:17.0	Roy, welcome to Away With Words.
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