Interview on “At Issue with Ben Merens” (Wisconsin Public Radio) on the notable words of 2012. (Dec. 19, 2012)
Fiscal cliff, Gangnam Style, YOLO, Frankenstorm, malarkey…these are just a few of the words and phrases we’ve picked up during the last year. In this hour, Ben Merens and his guest “double down” and look at the top words of 2012. Guest: Ben Zimmer, executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. He writes a biweekly language column for The Boston Globe and is the former “On Language” columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
(Show page, MP3, WMA, download, related Word Routes column, Boston Globe column)