Podcast appearances and mentions of dallas public library

Surprise! Here's a little bonus episode from my presentation at Dallas Public Library's mini true crime convention last year. This is the haunting case of filmmaker Allen Ross and his involvement with a fringe religious group. Content Warnings: cults & murder. For Ad Free Content visit Supercast; Patreon; or Apple Subscription Sponsors: Connect with Us: […]

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Summer is in full swing. This means getting outside, soaking up some sunshine, and listening to our favorite tunes—from oldies-but-goodies to today's hits. In Episode 97, Call Number covers music. Some libraries offered programs, hosted listening parties, and transformed into mini concert venues to celebrate their favorite musician's latest release. American Libraries Associate Editor and Call Number host Diana Panuncial speaks with Kafi-Ayanna Allah, adult services program coordinator at Orange County (N.C.) Public Library; Yesenia Baltierra, assistant library director at Placentia (Calif.) Library District; and Lizbeth Gamez, public service specialist at Dallas Public Library, about events they organized for local patrons who love Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and K-Pop. Then, library workers at the American Library Association's 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego share memories from the first concert they attended. Finally, American Libraries editor-at-large Anne Ford speaks with librarian and Grammy Award–winning French horn player Joy Worland. Worland is the consultant for continuing education and small and rural libraries at the Vermont Department of Libraries. She has performed regularly with a number of professional orchestras and chamber music groups, including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, where she earned multiple Grammy Awards as associate principal horn. They discuss her illustrious career as a librarian and musician and how the worlds connected.

November 29th Podcast     Welcome to your Paulding County News Podcast.  I'm Melissa Carter, along with Doug Harding.  Tense moments unfold on a flight bound for Atlanta, details on a disturbing incident. And a Dallas man, wanted for homicide, is caught in another state.  But first…     PC News   Former President Jimmy Carter honored his late wife, Rosalynn Carter, at a national tribute service in Atlanta yesterday.   Mrs. Carter, the lifelong companion of the 39th President, passed away at 96 on Nov. 19 after 77 years of marriage.   The invite-only event at Glenn Memorial Church boasted a high-profile guest list, including President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff.   Dignitaries like Former President Bill Clinton, Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, and local figures Governor Brian Kemp and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens paid their respects.   Her funeral will take place in Plains today.   This from 11 Alive.     PC News     Authorities in Tennessee successfully apprehended a suspect from Dallas.   Loudon County Sheriff's Office employed a combination of  phone ping and FLOC camera techniques to track down Brandon Howard to the 300 block of Get Good Hollow Road in Loudon.   Swift action by SWAT and Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers resulted in Howard's capture after a brief chase.   The 37-year-old suspect, wanted in Dallas for homicide, is now held at the Loudon County Detention Center awaiting extradition.   This from the Loudon County Sheriff's Office.     PC News In a move to tackle the potential winter surge, the U.S. government is making it easier for Americans to access COVID-19 tests from the comfort of their homes. Those who missed the September distribution can order up to eight free at-home virus tests at COVIDtests.gov. The U.S. Postal Service will deliver them at no cost. The distribution coincides with the onset of flu season and reports of increased RSV cases in various regions. Though COVID-19 hospitalizations saw a recent rise, overall numbers have stabilized, thanks to vaccinations and previous infections. The release also precedes the first winter without mandatory insurance coverage for at-home tests, which now average $11. This from 11 Alive. Coming up: A Georgia woman's search for her missing vacuum goes viral, and later, why law enforcement is sounding the alarm for iPhone users - regarding a hidden feature stealing your information. But now let's check the weather for Paulding County…   Weather Warmer temperatures the remainder of the week, with High's reaching around 60 and the Low tonight in the 30's, 40's Thursday and 50's on Friday.  Rain expected this weekend.   Arrest Report In a bizarre turn of events, a passenger jumped out of the emergency exit on a Southwest Airlines flight, headed to Atlanta from Louisiana.   The incident occurred during boarding, with the plane still on the ground.   The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office apprehended the incoherent passenger on the tarmac, attributing the act to a potential mental health emergency.   No criminal charges have been filed, and federal authorities are investigating.   Southwest Airlines apologized for the inconvenience, and the canceled flight has left passengers reeling.   Monique Pellant said:  Hopefully they end up on a permanent no fly list ... there is no hope for stupidity.   Cathy Anderson commented:  Scary behavior, glad the plane wasn't in the air.   Tarmon Selling offered:  I believe I can fly.   Lin Bayer said:  WTF … the zoo that flies on SW.     Social Media   From WSB's Facebook Page:   In a recent update, Apple's iOS 17.1 introduces the 'NameDrop' feature, enabling iPhone users to quickly share contacts with nearby devices.   However, Georgia authorities issue a warning, cautioning users about inadvertent information sharing with strangers.   Police emphasize that this feature activates automatically upon updating.   To disable NameDrop, users are advised to navigate to Settings, General, AirDrop, and toggle 'Bringing Devices Together' to off.   Keeshia Smith says:  This is nothing new. There's been an app for this for over a decade. They've got yaw scared to breathe.   Krystal Antkowiak offered:  Both people have to accept to share when both phones are held super close like they are about to kiss.   Billy Coulter responded:  You can set it to contacts only also.   Jay Black said:  See, this is the reason I will be Android for life.       Weird Story A woman in Cobb County has gone viral , after she captured her Roomba's daring escape on camera.   Shelley Betz's robot vacuum, missing for two days, was caught rolling away from her home on doorbell footage.   Betz explained on TikTok that the front door was open while they decorated for Christmas, prompting the Roomba's breakout.   The video, featuring the 'Little Roomba That Could,' has amassed over 28 million views on TikTok, set to George Michael's 'Freedom! '90.'   Unfortunately, the escape left the Roomba without padding and brushes   This from WSB.   Events Today from 11a until 2p - Weekly Computer and Internet Essentials Class for Seniors at the Dallas Public Library on Recreation Drive.   Tonight from 6p until 10p - Oliva Cigars Poker Event at D&D Company Inc/ Smokes Lounge on Beatty Street in Hiram.   December 1st, from 6p until 10p - City of Hiram Christmas Tree Lighting on Main Street.   December 2nd, 11a until 2p - Santa at McKenna Farms on Due West Road in Dallas.     (Interview)   Taylor Duncan, Alternative Baseball - Grand Marshall for the Paulding County Christmas Parade   State News   If I asked you where the deadliest road in the United States was, would you have answered Georgia?   It's true.  Interstate 16 - between Macon and Savannah - has been deemed the deadliest road in the country, with a fatality rate of 23.2 per 100 miles.   Spanning 166 miles, factors contributing to I-16's alarming rate include design challenges, driver behaviors like speeding and impairment, and adverse environmental conditions.   So if you have to travel this stretch of road during the holidays, make sure you take special care.   This from the Newton County News.   PC News Georgia roadways are becoming a battleground:  holiday deliveries vs. law enforcement vigilance.   Officers from the Georgia Department of Public Safety's Motor Carrier Compliance Division are on the lookout for overloaded trucks.   One officer recently flagged a truck carrying heavy stone, exceeding the legal limit by more than 8,000 pounds.   This year, citations have been issued for trucks up to 12,000 pounds overweight, with one incident damaging the Mt. Vernon Highway bridge.   However, challenges persist as officers are stretched thin.   Advocates argue heavier trucks streamline logistics, but opponents stress road damage and safety concerns.   This from 11 Alive.   Sports   From the Paulding Sports Chronicle:   In Round 3 - of high school football tournament action over the weekend - winners in the region include:   Douglas Co Cartersville Coffee Co Starrs' Mill Bowdon Rome Walton Rockmart   In basketball, North Paulding Girls lost to Buford, while Hiram Girls defeated Drew Charter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paulding County News Podcast Wednesday 11, 2023  The Braves won big 2nd game of the series over East Paulding graduate Zach wheeler and the Phillies. Well, Zach did the county proud, pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up only 3 hits and 3 runs to the Braves. But in the end Andrew Riley 2 run homer propelled the braves to a big win. Although not a Hometown Atlanta Brave, Paulding Counties own Zach Wheeler is one of the top pitchers in major league baseball. Congrats Zach on a great season. Just not so much luck against our Braves.     How many of the 200,000 paulding county residents have ever been to Braswell Mountain? Braswell a city of 355 People located on the Polk Paulding line in Northwest paulding county is   Braswell Volunteer Fire Department is organizing a Public Safety Car Show on October 14th from 10 am to 3 pm at 6997 Braswell Mountain Road. Vehicle entry requires a $30 registration fee, while spectators can attend for free. The event welcomes all years, makes, and models with activities such as trophies, food trucks, trunk-a-treat, touch-a-truck, door prizes, a 50/50 raffle, costume contest, jump house, free candy, music, and more. It promises a day of family-friendly fun for the community..............      Agenda Minutes: This a story not a stand-alone event   The City of Hiram had a regular session on Tuesday October 3rd, and the meeting started with the red ribbon week proclamation and was rescheduled for the October 24 work session. They also approved a consent agenda which was authorising the purchasing of Taser 10 devices for the Hiram Police Department from Axon Enterprises Inc. In 5 annual payments. Also, they granted the police department permission to use Gray's Mill Park for the annual Trunk-or-Treat event on Saturday October 28th.  In the new buisness section of the meeting they discussed and authorized the purchase of lighted garland for Holiday designs. They also adopted the ordinance 2023-06 for the rezoning of 619 main street.  Some upcoming events that they also noted during this meeting was the upcoming work session on the 24th of October at 6 PM and the Trunk-or-Treat on October 28th from 5PM-9PM    Weather:    This weekend the highs are going to be in the higher 60s and the lower 70s as we contenue to grow with fall. The lows will be around the 50s. May be the perfect night for a bonfire in the back yard. Please make sure you know if it is safe to burn in your area. A good way to check is to call the police NON-EMERGENCY number. #weatherreport #coolingoff #perfectweather    Paulding County Arrest Reports:  Casey Meece was booked on 10/5/2023 for no motor vehicle shall be operated with a windshield or rear window having a starburst or spider webbing effect greater 3X3, no proof of insurance, and knowingly driving motor vehicle on suspended, canceled, or revoked registration.    Thomas Ringle was booked on 10/5/2023 for wireless telecommunications device use prohibited and driving while license suspended or revoked.      AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE ONLY BEEN ARRESTED AND ARE NOT CONVICTED. THEY HAVE NOT HAD THEIR DAY IN COURT WHEN WE RECORDED THIS PODCAST. WE WISH THEM LUCK ON THEIR DAY IN THE COURT.    25th Annual “Battle of Paulding”:  And finally, the South Paulding High School Spartans football team, led by Head Coach Maurice Allen, secured a 21-0 victory in the annual "Battle" game against Paulding County High. This marks the second year of the rivalry, with the Spartans prevailing. This game was played in memoriam of Coach Ken Phillips. Congratulations to the Spartan Nation and the sportsmanship displayed from the coin toss to the trophy presentation. The heartfelt presentation by PCSD Chief School Leadership Officer Jason Freeman about Coach Phillips and the evening concludes with Coach Phillips's daughter, Kenelle, awarding MVP trophies and reflecting on her father's love for faith and his players..............This from the Dallas New Era    Sports:  From the Paulding Sports Chronicles  Last week's recap:  Douglas County beat Paulding County 27-2  South Paulding beat N. Manchester 24-12  North Paulding had a Bye week  East Paulding fell to Huges 54-29  Hiram Lost to Calhoun 56-35  This upcoming Friday 3 of our 5 high schools have a bye week   PC, SP, EP: BYE  North Paulding plays Harrison and Hiram plays Cartersville    Weird news:  Wedding Crasher:    Sandra Lynn Henson, accused of crashing weddings in three states, was arrested in Mississippi after being caught eating wedding cake at Lexi Loden and Brady Butler's wedding. Henson allegedly stole cash and gifts at weddings in Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Caught in the act, she initially denied theft but later admitted taking $200, returning it when confronted by the bride's family. Henson had a notebook listing potential wedding targets. Facing charges of petit larceny, trespassing, and disturbing the peace, she pleaded not to be reported to the police. Despite the incident, the bride emphasized that the day remained special for her and Brady...........This from the Georgia News Network  Well Wedding season is ending (wedding season is May through October), and you might see a wedding crasher at the next wedding you attend in Paulding!      Here are some things you're talking about: Call us with your thoughts or story at ‪(770) 799-6810  From the What's Happening in Paulding County Facebook page: need to site better stories and other pages   Sheri Kennedy Wickline originally from California “I want to make you all aware of the very RUDE, NASTY pharmacy manager at the Rome Walmart! I had taken my prescription to the pharmacy week ago. They told me it would be next Tuesday, it would be ready to pick up. Well they made a mistake ordering and my RX got put on hold! I asked…. was someone going to call me? Pharmacy reply..that not my job! She raises her voice at me and said that I was to call before coming to the store! I was a bit miffed but replied…I can't go shopping and stop by to see if it was ready to pick up? As I was talking everyone was talking over me which made me raise my voice. The pharmacist hollers at me and said…I'm giving you back your RX and told me to find and other pharmacies! She said I was disrupting HER business 3 time in a loud voice over her counter and she said she will never fill my RX!!! This was there fault that they can't fill RX correctly. I went to the manager and she when went to the pharmacist and she came back to said she was sorry but she refuses to fill my RX. PLEASE BEWARE this pharmacist. She used her privilege to refuse serving me because of there mistake! Just a side note.. everyone in the pharmacy was in shock! So was I!!!”  These are your responses from actual Paulding County citizens - as reported on What's Happening Paulding County   Sean Spratt from Cartersville “Makes sense to post all of this here where nothing can be accomplished except getting your anger validated vs just contacting Walmart to see if your Rx issue can be resolved.”  Sherry Thompson Hullett from Temple “If you have her name call Walmart's corporate office and report her.”  Chani Ford from Atlanta “It's not her pharmacy, for one. Leave negative reviews and file a complaint with BBB  You can also file a complaint with corporate. There is plenty you can do, it just takes a little work”  Gail Oneal from Bowdon “You people are so ridiculous.  Your comments are so immature.”    From the moms of Paulding, Georgia Facebook page:  Jenna Viehmeyer originally from New Jersey “Hey mamas! Does anyone know if the Paulding PD or FD can help moms with getting a car seat? Im 4 weeks away from my scheduled C-section & hubs and I have honestly been struggling to get everything we need for this baby given the fact weve got two toddlers growing like weeds already at home, and the cost of everything going up by the month it feels like; and the car seat has been the biggest of my worries cause its one of the 'big purchases' we need to get. When we lived down south the PD got us set up with one for my oldest as hers was in an accident, so I was curious to know if paulding offers it anywhere. Thanks in advance everyone!”    Others commented:  Krista Jennifer Cotton from Hiram “I have an infant car seat with no base”  Rachel Bassett from Dallas “Please make sure if you accept a car seat from somebody or purchase one from somebody that it is not expired “  Jennifer Andrew from Hiram “I don't believe most PD or FD departments do car seat checks anymore unless they have a staff member who is CPST certified. Otherwise, it's a huge liability for them if the install is incorrect.  You could check here to find a CPST near you.  https://cert.safekids.org/”  Kayla Danielle Reagin from Dallas “I believe the GA state patrol office can help or at least they do in Bartow County. My scheduled c section is October 31st so I'm a little behind too and still haven't done it. Walmart does have one for around $60 if all else fails.”    Thanks for being one of the 10000 downloads we have had to the Paulding co news podcast since we launched in JULY. We are watching your social media post. Who knows, your friends and family could make the news, just based off their post. Soo make sure you listen subscribe and tell your friends about Paulding County News podcast. #facebook #pages #whatareyoutalkingabout #thisisyourstory #yourstory #yourcommunity #needsyourattention  Events:   Family Movie night:  October 14 Paulding County Parks and Rec are showing Hotel Transylvania: Transformania Festivities start at 7 and the movie starts at sundown in Veterans Memorial Park   Halloween costume shop:  From now until 10/19 drop off gently used or new Halloween costumes and receive up to 5 tickets. You can exchange your tickets for a new to you costume on 10/20 at 11AM at the Dallas Public Library #eventshappeningnearyou #weekendevents #weekdayevents #whatyouaretalkingabout #whatsgoingoninpauldingcounty #events #loveevents #getyououtofthehouse #funforthefamily    Interview:   www.esogrepair.com      www.chattahoochietech.edu  www.cuofga.org www.daycosystems.com www.angie.atlcommunities.com  www.powerselectricga.com http://www.newseason.cc/  #NewsPodcast #CurrentEvents #TopHeadlines #BreakingNews #PodcastDiscussion #PodcastNews #InDepthAnalysis #NewsAnalysis #PodcastTrending #WorldNews #LocalNews #GlobalNews #PodcastInsights #NewsBrief #PodcastUpdate #NewsRoundup #WeeklyNews #DailyNews #PodcastInterviews #HotTopics #PodcastOpinions #InvestigativeJournalism #BehindTheHeadlines #PodcastMedia #NewsStories #PodcastReports #JournalismMatters #PodcastPerspectives #NewsCommentary #PodcastListeners #NewsPodcastCommunity #NewsSource #PodcastCuration #WorldAffairs #PodcastUpdates #AudioNews #PodcastJournalism #EmergingStories #NewsFlash #PodcastConversationsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greetings friends. Join us as we discuss the story of a local axe murder, Candy Montgomery. Texas Wine and True Crime hit the road and presented this story at the Dallas Public Library for their True Crime Mini Convention. This is an interesting tale and very much gaining attention as of late with two new series released this year. We also sipped on a delicious Mourvèdre Rose from Rustic Spur this week which was delicious and refreshing and a great match for this Texas heat.Support the show

What are the "Hidden Gems" that you don't want to miss at the upcoming TLA Annual Conference - the education sessions that are worth your time, but might otherwise get overlooked? Here to share their wisdom is Mary Woodard, our TLA President, recently retired from Mesquite ISD; Jo Giudice, co-chair of the Conference Program Committee and the Director of the Dallas Public Library; and Emma McDonald co-chair of the Conference Program Committee and Director of Library Services at Mesquite ISD. See what sessions they recommend that might otherwise go overlooked. #txla23

Ana Niño is the Librarian at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, located at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden in Fort Worth, Texas. Ana joined the team there in November 2021, and is responsible for managing the library, archival, and art collections. Ana attended Cornell University, where she studied Science & Technology Studies, and later earned her Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas. Ana's background includes roles with the Dallas Public Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Carrollton Public Library, where she served as the Community Outreach Librarian, and the Dallas Morning News, where she served as a researcher.

In this episode of ESG Talks, Karen Daly, Senior Managing Director and head of KBRA's Public Finance Team interviews Kim Bizor Tolbert, Deputy City Manager of Dallas and Liz Cedillo-Pereira, Assistant City Manager. Kim provides executive leadership to the Office of Risk Management, Aviation, Dallas Water Utilities, Human Resources, Communications, Outreach, & Marketing, Office of Homeless Solutions, and the Small Business Center. As Assistant City Manager, Liz provides executive leadership to the Dallas Public Library, Office of Arts & Culture, Office of Community Care, Office of Environmental Quality & Sustainability, Office of Equity & Inclusion, and Ethics. Karen, Kim, and Liz discuss city initiatives aimed at improving equity and inclusion for Dallas' diverse population.

Greg Browder is a founding member of the P.O.N.D. podcast and after serving the City of Dallas and the Dallas Public Library for 21 years, he's hung up his headphones to enjoy retirement! This episode takes a listen back through some of Greg's highlights during his time hosting the P.O.N.D.

We are kicking off July with the audio from our live show at the Dallas Public Library mini crimecon event. Sergeant Brian Baker joins us for this one hour show as we discuss wine, true crime, and goat hair?!If you want to join our winos and crimos crew on Patreon just click here and get in where you fit in! Cheers and happy 4th!

Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Rudy, chats with author Conor Bender about World War II history, the challenges of writing historical fiction, and The Laws of Historical Accuracy. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles, series, and creators mentioned in this episode include: • Jubilee by Conor Bender • The Alice Network by Kate Quinn • The Martian by Andy Weir • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett • Tom Clancy • Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear • Joe Abercrombie • Neil Gaiman

Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Brandon, chats with author Wendi Coffman-Porter about story endings, roleplaying games, and of course, Baby Yoda. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles, series, and creators mentioned in this episode include: • Fantastic Beasts film series • Altered Carbon series • Aether Ones by Wendi Coffman-Porter • Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin • David Weber’s Honorverse book series • On Writing by Stephen King • The Mandalorian series • The Stand by Stephen King • The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer • The Dragonlance book series • Piers Anthony • Elizabeth Moon • David Weber • The Deed of Paksenarrion • The Black Company series by Glen Cook

Personal Librarians of the Dallas Public Library, Carlos and Rudy, chat with author Natalia Sylvester about washing your elbows, Natalia’s Feminist Manifesto, and of course her book “Running”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles mentioned include: • “Running” by Natalia Sylvester • “Everyone Knows You Go Home” by Natalia Sylvester • “Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina García

Personal Librarians of the Dallas Public Library, Jessica and Misty, chat with author M. L. Rio about Shakespeare, Ian McKellan, and of course M. L. Rio’s book “If We Were Villains”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles discussed in this episode include: • Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night • Shakespeare’s King Lear • Shakespeare’s A Midnight Summer’s Dream • Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson • If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by the Reduced Shakespeare Company • License to Quill: A Novel of Shakespeare & Marlowe Novel by Jacopo della Quercia

Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Jessica, chats with author Amber Lough about languages, Amber’s book, “Open Fire”, and of course, the importance of voting. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles discussed in this episode include: • A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth E. Wein • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein • They Fought for the Motherland by Laurie S. Stoff • Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth E. Wein • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Shannon, chats with author Brandy Colbert about Enola Holmes, book endings, the importance of voting, and Brandy’s book, “The Voting Booth”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles discussed in this episode include: • “The Black Kids” by Christina Hammonds Reed • “Felix Ever After” by Kacen Callender • “Yes No Maybe So” by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli • “Watch Over Me” by Nina LaCour • “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson • “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith • “Ways to Make Sunshine” by Renee Watson • “Grown” by Tiffany D. Jackson • “Black Buck” by Mateo Askaripour • "Floating in a Most Peculiar Way" by David Racinei This program was made possible by the 19th Amendment Centennial Fund

Dallas Public Library personal librarian Audrey chats with author of Dumplin’, Puddin’, Side Effects May Vary, and Faith: Taking Flight; Julie Murphy. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Authors and titles mentioned in this episode include: • Fault in Our Stars • Faith: Taking Flight • Lily Anderson • Amy Spaulding • Leah Johnson’s You Should See Me in a Crown

Dallas Public Library personal librarians Rudy and Morgan discuss the Spoken Word, nail polish and sour cream, Hank the Cowdog, and of course David Sedaris. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Authors and titles mentioned in this episode include: • Maya Angelou • Joy Harjo • Charles Simic’s Mirrors at 4 a.m. • Sarah Vowell & This American Life • Hank the Cow Dog by John R. Erickson • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern • Kate Beaton • Tracy K. Smith • Frank O’Hara • David Sedaris

Dallas Public Library personal librarian Jessica chats with author James Venhaus about the size of football players, Hamilton, and of course, the Night Owl Society. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Books and plays mentioned in this episode include: • Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman • A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante • Tom King’s Batman • Brian Michael Bendis’ Superman • Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins, & Dave Gibbons • James Venhaus’ Night Owl Society • John Lewis & Andrew Aydin’s March • They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott • Art Spiegelman’s Maus

Dallas Public Library personal librarians Kat and Misty talk comfort reads, David Sedaris and Billy Holliday impressions, the cast of Mad Men being good at being terrible men from the 60s, and the Human Centipede. Titles mentioned in this episode include: • Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman • Coraline by Neil Gaiman • Becoming by Michelle Obama • Flight of the Conchords • Theft by Finding: Diaries by David Sedaris • Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris • Mad Men • Boys for Pele by Tori Amos • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald • Human Centipede • On the Road by Jack Kerouac • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarian, Jessica and author Talia Hibbert discuss romance, Disney princess costumes, and Poppin’ Fresh. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Monique and Haley discuss poetry, Iron Heart, France, and The Bachelor. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarian, Misty talks to author Gail Carriger about quarantine snacks, archaeology, and the difference between Vegemite and Marmite. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Jessica and Carlos talk about Dungeons & Dragons, books with the ambience of the D&D realm and the characters they play in the role-playing game. Ask them to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Rudy and Jessica talk about video games, books inspired by video games and how easy it is to get lost in a fictional world.. Ask them to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Audrey and Monique talk about the #ownvoices movement. They explore young adult literature with queer, disabled, People of Color and other diverse groups as the heroes of novels, rather than the sidekicks. Ask them to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Jessica and Kat talk about books where the main character has a disability, steampunk and life as a land mermaid. Ask them to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Dallas Public Library personal librarians, Brandon and Carlos talk sci-fi, fantasy, and how they don't love Harry Potter, but they still have recommendations for you if you do. Ask them to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

The Dallas Public Library finally debuted their brand new Creative Spaces: three rooms within the library that are fully stocked with the tools you will need to get started with any of those three hobbies.

The Dallas Public Library finally debuted their brand new Creative Spaces: three rooms within the library that are fully stocked with the tools you will need to get started with any of those three hobbies.

Jim Beck was an innovator and a wizard in the recording studio. In the early-mid 1950s, Beck gave raw honky tonk talent some of their first sides - names that later went on to become some of country's legends. Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Marty Robbins amongst many others were in Beck's studios long before they went to Nashville - and if not for Jim Beck's untimely passing in 1956, could Dallas, Texas have become centre for all things country music? In this special edition of the show, we explore what may have been and take a deep dive into some of the finest country, western and hillbilly talent that ever was. Photo credit: Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division of the Dallas Public Library.

Jim Beck was an innovator and a wizard in the recording studio. In the early-mid 1950s, Beck gave raw honky tonk talent some of their first sides - names that later went on to become some of country's legends. Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Marty Robbins amongst many others were in Beck's studios long before they went to Nashville - and if not for Jim Beck's untimely passing in 1956, could Dallas, Texas have become centre for all things country music? In this special edition of the show, we explore what may have been and take a deep dive into some of the finest country, western and hillbilly talent that ever was. Photo credit: Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division of the Dallas Public Library.

The news includes: MyHeritage announced Shared Ancestral Places, a new facility in its MyHeritage DNA. MyHeritage announced that artifact testing is on its way. MyHeritage held a very successful conference, MyHeritage LIVE, in Oslo, Norway, and videos of the keynote by Gilad Japhet and 23 other presentations are available for free at https://familytreewebinars.com/MHLIVE2018. Findmypast has added 106K Pennsylvania Cemetery & Burial records, and a variety of English and Scotland military records. Findmypast has partnered with Living DNA to launch a new discovery experience with a breakdown of 80 global regions, including 21 across Britain and Ireland. FamilySearch is partnering with the Dallas Public Library to digitize the library's extensive family history book collection. FamilySearch announced free access to more than 150 million Italian historical genealogical records. Drew summarizes the new and updated collections at FamilySearch. Drew reviews two new books: Nathan Dylan Goodwin has published a new book, Ghost Swifts, Blue Poppies, and the Red Star. It introduces a new character, Mrs. Harriett Agnes McDougall, who investigates the circumstances surrounding her son's death during the Great War. Family Tree Books has published a new edition of Nancy Hendrickson's book, The Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com. The new book provides great advice for maximizing your use and searches of Ancestry.com and features new chapters about AncestryDNA. Drew explains what the recent announcement means that in rare instances a male can pass mitochondrial DNA to his offspring. Listener email includes: Susie thanks George for his recent presentations in Roswell, New Mexico, and says she has already been applying new techniques she learned in a recent research trip to Vermont. Statch thanks The Guys for a recent blog post about money used in colonial America. They remind people to read the blog at http://blog.genealogyguys.com where they will find that post and recent posts about: Using a perpetual calendar School records Online library reference resources African Americans and Native Americans Hispanic resources Jewish resources Linda thanks The Guys for explaining why the Castle Garden website and Stephen Morse's One-Step searches reveal different results. She also recommends Amy Johnson Crow's Generations Café podcast and specifically her episode on Overlooked Things on FamilySearch. John shared his experience with searching census records for his family surname, how the enumerators butchered it, and how he used various keywords for his ancestor's medical profession to locate misspelled and mis-indexed records. Laura turned on FamilySearch WebHints in her RootsMagic database and found many new records. In particular, she describes three marriage records that provided new insights for her family. Van is caught up with listening to all of our podcasts! He writes about research into South Carolina records and discusses questions about family groups found. Included are the used of DNA in this research. Joseph wrote in response to Beth's Mennonite research in Episode #352, and provided some reference sites to help with Pennsylvania Mennonite research: Genealogical Society of PA - https://genpa.org/ GSP's PA Research Guides - https://genpa.org/public-collections/pennsylvania-resources/ Historical Society of PA - https://hsp.org/ HSP's Card Catalog on FamilySearch -https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2524622 FamilySearch Wiki (Mennonites) - https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Mennonites Mennonite Heritage Center Genealogy Resources - http://mhep.org/library/genealogy-resources/ Daniel responded from Spain about Laura's DNA “mess” and raised the issue of financial impacts of sharing the stories. Kelvin wrote about DNA artifact testing and comments on how helpful he is finding discussions on the Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques Facebook group. Interested listeners may want to join. Tedi asked about genealogical software that can be used on both a desktop and iPad. The Guys discussed a brand-new DNA tool, Genetic Affairs, which can currently be used with your AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and Family Tree DNA results in order to cluster results. The tool's website is at http://geneticaffairs.com and has a 12-page manual available for download.

Ari Wilkins is a popular speaker at genealogy conferences and a faculty member at IGHR.  She is on the genealogy staff of the Dallas Public Library, and has an expertise in African-American research.  

Southern genealogy research has its challenges. Ari Wilkins from the Dallas Public Library shares an often-overlooked resource: plantation records.  Ari shares how this massive collection was put together, where to find these records, and what you'll find in them.  These records are useful whether your ancestor was enslaved, a wealthy plantation owner, or a member of community (with or without slaves).  Dealing with a burned county? Then you definitely want to work in plantation records, as these records weren't at the courthouse!  You can find the show notes at AmyJohnsonCrow.com/7

Episode 180- Jennifer S. Levine..Lovi'n Life and Livi'n in Love BIOGRAPHY: Jennifer S. Levine was born in Dallas, Texas. She spent her childhood trapped in books, museums and all other curiosity, which fed her imagination or got paint under her nails. When most teens would run into mischief with their first set of car keys, Ms. Levine would run to the DMA (Dallas Museum of Art) or fourth floor of the Dallas Public Library to render from the masters and explore the etymology of human discourse through artistic expression. She eventually saw these pieces in person, traveling the world with her sketchbooks and journals. She studied Studio Art at The University of North Texas and Creative Writing at The University of Denver. After completing a yearlong glassblowing apprenticeship in 2001, she started her career as a professional glassblower. And in 2011 she founded FIREPOWER PRODUCTIONS. Jennifer S. Levine believes in autodidactic living; the day one stops learning, one stops breathing. After 18 years in Denver, Colorado, she has returned to Dallas, Texas for a while as of 2017. Ms. Levine spends her free time laughing uncontrollably, cracking jokes, coaching small business owners and writing.

On a visit to the Dallas Public Library, host Jeff Olivet sits down with Jo Guidice, the library's Director, to discuss the innovative ways DPL is serving and engaging its homeless customers, as many as 50-60 people every day.

The Dallas Book Festival is Sat., April 30 at the Dallas Public Library. We discuss Lauren Smart's piece on the city's ongoing ambitions to become a literary city. Also, culture critic Chris Vognar and arts and culture editor Christopher Wynn chat with Lauren about a UT Arlington English class that uses analytics to study the work of Jay-Z.

Welcome to Season 2 of the Street View Podcast! The team is back and we have a new team member, Malcolm Varner. Malcolm joined the Dallas Public Library in October 2014 and serves as the library's Homeless Engagement Coordinator thanks to a Special Projects grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Catch up with the team and find out what new programs they have developed, whether or not Rashad got his Jeep or Boxer or apartment and exciting new plans for the development of the Community Exchange and engagement of the whole downtown Dallas community.

Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for A Way with Words comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, celebrating 35 years of making a leadership difference with Situational Leadership II, the leadership model designed to boost effectiveness, impact, and employee engagement. More about how Blanchard can help your executives and organizational leaders at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: 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 2014, Wayword LLC.

Meet Ron Cowart with the Dallas Police Department's Crisis Intervention unit about the ambivalent relationship the police have with the homeless. Discussion continues with Chris and Kiki, homeless individuals sharing their own experiences on the streets and with the police. Street View Podcast is a part of the Dallas Public Library’s ongoing Homeless Engagement Initiative aimed at increasing community awareness of issues related to homelessness and promoting the public library as a place of social inclusion.

Part 1 of 3 of Street View Podcast Episode 1: Meet Rashad Dickerson, host of Street View (www.streetviewpodcast.com), and learn more about the Dallas Public Library's Homeless Engagement Initiative from library staff, Jasmine Africawala and Ann Bever, as well as the Director of Libraries, Jo Giudice. Street View Podcast is a part of the Dallas Public Library’s ongoing Homeless Engagement Initiative aimed at increasing community awareness of issues related to homelessness and promoting the public library as a place of social inclusion.

Part 2 of 3 of Street View Podcast Episode 1: Meet Rashad Dickerson, host of Street View (www.streetviewpodcast.com), and learn more about the Dallas Public Library's Homeless Engagement Initiative from library staff, Jasmine Africawala and Ann Bever, as well as the Director of Libraries, Jo Giudice. Street View Podcast is a part of the Dallas Public Library’s ongoing Homeless Engagement Initiative aimed at increasing community awareness of issues related to homelessness and promoting the public library as a place of social inclusion.

Part 3 of 3 of Street View Podcast Episode 1: Meet Rashad Dickerson, host of Street View (www.streetviewpodcast.com), and learn more about the Dallas Public Library's Homeless Engagement Initiative from library staff, Jasmine Africawala and Ann Bever, as well as the Director of Libraries, Jo Giudice. Street View Podcast is a part of the Dallas Public Library’s ongoing Homeless Engagement Initiative aimed at increasing community awareness of issues related to homelessness and promoting the public library as a place of social inclusion.

Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for AWWW comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, who mission since 1979 has been to unleash the power and potential of people and organizations everywhere.  More about Ken Blanchard's leadership development solutions at kenblanchard.com/leadership.Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: 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 2012, Wayword LLC.

Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technology is changing the way we think and write, and what English sounds like to foreigners. (Hint: It's not pretty.) Plus, where cockamamie comes from, oddly translated movie titles, trucker slang, patron vs. customer, hashtags, pungling, paralipsis, and more.FULL DETAILSQuiz time! Does pungle mean a) a baby platypus, or b) a verb meaning "to put down money."  It's the latter. The term pungle is most common in the Western United States. It comes from the Spanish pongale, an imperative meaning "put it down." For example, you might pungle down cash at a poker table or a checkout counter.Michelle, a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, says her students believe they've invented a new word for "an injury received from a fist bump or dap." They say they created fistumba as a combination of fist and Zumba, the popular dance exercise. They're wondering how to improve their chances of spreading this new word, and they've been discussing the children's book Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which is about inventing and trying to popularize a new term."We don't want to dwell on the need for your donations, so we'll stop talking about how important they are." Rhetorical statements like this one, where the point is actually made by pretending to avoid it, is often called paralipsis or paraleipsis. The terms come from the Greek word meaning "to leave aside."In truck driver slang, a bedbugger is "a moving van that hauls furniture." That's one example of trucker lingo that Martha picked up during her appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's call-in program, The Ben Merens Show.Kathleen from Hebron, Connecticut, is curious about the term hashtag. She associates it with the symbol #, which she calls a pound sign. When that symbol, also known as a hash mark, pound sign, doublecross, hatch mark, octothorpe, or number sign, is appended to clickable keywords, the whole thing is known as a hashtag. It's used on Twitter, among other places, to help label a message on a particular topic.If you're a fan of yard sales, you'll love this game from Puzzle Guy John Chaneski. Suppose you go yard-saling, but only at the homes of famous people. The items you find there are all two-word rhymes. At the house of one powerful politician, for example, you find he's selling his flannel nightclothes. Can you guess what they're called?Richard from San Diego, California, has a hard time believe that the term cockamamie doesn't derive from Yiddish. Although the word was adapted by Jewish immigrants in New York City to refer to transferable decals, it comes from French decalcomania. Cockamamie, or cockamamy, is now used to describe something wacky or ridiculous, and it's often heard among those familiar with Yiddish.What film, when translated from its Spanish version, is known as An Expert in Fun? It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Now take a crack at decoding these two: Love without Stopovers, and Very Important Perros.Suzie, who works at the Dallas Public Library, is wondering why librarians are being asked to refer to their patrons as customers. Does the word customer make consulting a library and borrowing books feel too much like a transaction? Eric Patridge, in his 1955 book The Concise Usage and Abusage, explains that you can have a patron of the arts, but not of a greengrocer or a bookmaker. What do you think people who use a library should be called?Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: "All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure."The modifier lamming or lammin', is used as an intensifier, as in "That container is lammin' full," meaning "That container is extremely full." There's a whole class of intensifying words like this in English, which have to do with the idea of hitting, banging, thumping, or striking. Another example: larrupin'.  The word lammin' in particular popped up in a bunch of cowboy novels after Zane Grey popularized the term in his books.Do you listen to our show on an alligator radio? We're guessing not, since this bit of trucker slang refers to the CB radios that transmit a strong signal but are terrible for receiving. Like an alligator, they're all mouth and no ears.Voice recording technology is making it easier than ever to dictate text rather than write it. Richard Powers, author of the 2006 National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, wrote most of that book by dictating it into a computer program. Of course, dictating to humans has been happening for centuries. John Milton is said to have dictated Paradise Lost to his daughters, and Mark Twain supposedly dictated much of his Autobiography. But as Powers explained in an essay, dictating to a computer changes the way one puts words on the page.Every elementary school student is taught never to start a sentence with "But." But why? Teachers of young students often warn against beginning with "But" or "And" simply as a way of avoiding a verbal crutch. All mature writers develop an instinct for what tone they're going for, who their audience is, and what kind of style their content demands. But there's no universal rule against starting a sentence with the word "but."David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning "law," and the lex which refers to "words." While lexis refers to the total stock of words in a language, lexicon means the vocabulary of an individual or a specific branch of knowledge. They all come from an ancient root leg-, having to do with the idea of "collecting" or "gathering," which also gives us the suffix -logy, as in the study of something.If you're driving an 18-wheeler and want to warn fellow truckers about a piece of blown tire lying in the middle of the road, you'd tell them to watch out for the alligator. Come to think of it, the crocodilian reptile and the rubber remnant do share a passing resemblance.Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language,. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language, or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native speakers of foreign languages.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for AWWW comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, who mission since 1979 has been to unleash the power and potential of people and organizations everywhere.  More about Ken Blanchard's leadership development solutions at kenblanchard.com/leadership.Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: 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 2012, Wayword LLC.