Even though this is a recorded podcast, you can always call us any time.

The number is 8779-9-9-6673.

Leave your questions and stories about language, and you might just end up discussing them on the air with us.

Thanks for listening.

You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

One of the fun things about having books besides reading them is making what's called a bookmash. Now, Grant, you know what these are. These are when you stack the books with their spines facing out so that their titles create a kind of found poetry. I was reminded of this when I was reading the blog called Sentence First. You know this one. It's by Stan Carey, who's based in Ireland and blogs about

language. And lately, he's been posting photos of bookmashes, and I enjoy them because they're

often oddly poetic. I mean, you have to picture this pile of books. He had a photograph of this

on his site. On the top is a book called Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett.

And underneath that is a book called Bugs by Theater Rozak.

And then there are four other books.

And if you go down this stack, the titles read sort of like a poem.

It goes, don't sleep.

There are snakes, bugs, creatures of the earth, in the shadow of man, myth makers and lawbreakers defining the world

oh that is nice yeah yeah and you know that last book found poetry

yeah defining the world by henry hitchings after i looked at stan's blog i happened

of glance up at my own bookshelf and i turn my head sideways and i could already see this

accidental bookmash taking shape. And it started

with Dave Wilton's book, Word Myth. So here's my accidental bookmash, Grant. Check it out.

Word myths, grammatically correct. The language of flowers, getting things done.

Nice. What does your bookmash look like?

...