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language experts Kathryn and Ross Petras on the year in words

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Episode • Dec 10, 2021 • 55m
(12/10/21) Sibling language experts and regular contributors to the program Kathryn and Ross Petras are the authors of the bestselling You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words—and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse and the hosts of a popular NPR podcast. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, Kathy and Ross sound off on some of the more bizarre language trends of the past year.

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