&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you serve a plumber who comes over for dinner? How about ... leeks? The hosts play a word game called &quot;What Would You Serve?&quot; Also, how can you correct someone&#039;s grammar without ruining a new relationship? And is there an easy way to remember the difference between who and whom?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you serve a plumber for dinner? How about leeks? (We didn&#039;t say it had to be appetizing.) What would you serve a jeweler? Carats. Martha and Grant play the &quot;What Would You Serve?&quot; game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Little Rock, Ark., caller has been going out with a Chinese woman. Her English is pretty good, but he wonders about the most polite way to correct a minor grammar mistake without ruining a new relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#039;s the origin of the expressions &quot;Word!&quot; and &quot;Word up!&quot;? Grant shares a theory from the book &quot;Black Talk&quot; by Geneva Smitherman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/gLhqdo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, here&#039;s that 1980&#039;s-era song &quot;Word Up.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you serve a chronic procrastinator? Ketchup. What would you serve a fertility specialist? Eggplant. Martha serves up those and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a quiz based on news events of the last several months, all in limerick form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman in Gainesville, Fla., says her father and his partner have an ongoing Scrabble feud over rebeheaded. Is it a word?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Anymore, I play golf instead of tennis.&quot; Grant explains that this grammatical construction is known as the &quot;positive anymore.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you serve to people separated by six degrees? Bacon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sign-language interpreter found herself translating the word doldrums. She wonders if it has to do the area of the ocean known by that name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would you serve a group of musicians and cardiologists? How about beets?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha shares some collective nouns sent in by listeners in response to a recent show on the topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.waywordradio.org/roberta-of-flax/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does nonplussed mean, exactly? Does it mean &quot;unflappable&quot; or &quot;at a loss.&quot; Martha and Grant disagree about its use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there some kind of snappy jingle for knowing when to use who and whom? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grant shares some familiar proverbs that supposedly arose from African-American English. The book he mentions is Proverbs, by Wolfgang Mieder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/dQVxmQ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Need a word for &quot;lover of the underdog&quot;? It&#039;s infracaninophile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email: words@waywordradio.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone: &lt;br /&gt;United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673&lt;br /&gt;London +44 20 7193 2113&lt;br /&gt;Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;Site: http://waywordradio.org/&lt;br /&gt;Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/&lt;br /&gt;Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/&lt;br /&gt;Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/&lt;br /&gt;Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/&lt;br /&gt;Skype: skype://waywordradio &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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