Season Premiere: Howdy, It's a Wit's War! - 26 Nov. 2007

It's a brand-new season here on 'A Way with Words!' To celebrate, Martha and Grant are noodling with anagrams--including the one in the title of this episode. Also:<br/><br/>A New York schoolteacher asks, 'Why do we call our little finger a 'pinkie'?'<br/><br/>Another caller snickers over a newscaster's attempt to pronounce the word 'homage.'<br/><br/>A Hoosier who's been hanging out on motorcycle discussion boards is curious about the origin of the term 'do-rag.'<br/><br/>'Why is an undesirable task is called a 'g-job,'' asks a crew member on the set of the Fox Television series '24.'<br/><br/>Martha shares a trick for remembering the answer to that perennial question: 'Does a comma go inside or outside the quotation marks?'<br/><br/>The hosts weigh in on whether the expression 'very fun' is grammatically correct.<br/><br/>What the heck is a 'podsnicker,' anyway?<br/><br/>Puzzle-man Greg Pliska joins us for a recap of 2007--in limericks!<br/><br/>Finally, is your DVD player always flashing '12:00'? A caller wonders if there's a word for a society ruled by children, something along the lines of 'patriarchy' and 'matriarchy.'<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=SBZKQ7fP"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=QbbpECGW"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?d=52" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=6mhC9kYt"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?i=6mhC9kYt" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=483IFXJY"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?i=483IFXJY" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=diHUPVej"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?i=diHUPVej" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.waywordradio.org/~f/awwwpodcast?a=byEzC4e2"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/awwwpodcast?d=42" bord