Words You Didn't Know You Needed to Know

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published August 17, 2021 at 12:26 PM CDT

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, is on a summer sabbatical from our show to work on other projects. But for the first week of schoool we reached back into our archives for a conversation about language.

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