Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about the worst words of the year. (Dec. 22, 2010)
Ben Zimmer, New York Times magazine’s “On Language” columnist and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus, discusses the worst words of 2010—from “enhanced pat down” to “anchor baby” to “mama grizzly.” We’ll be speaking with listeners about the words they hope disappear with the year’s end.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Word Routes column)