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A Way With Words Explores Fake English, Saturday at 1pm

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Fake English

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.

This Saturday at 1pm on 88.9 and 12 Noon on 89.1 in Panama City .